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Nurse leaves Hungary due to fatigue – She is now more free in Germany
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Csilla now works in a hospital’s intensive care nursery in Germany after leaving the Hungarian health care system behind.
At the beginning of this year, Daily News Hungary reported on several occasions on a newly implemented system offering new contracts to health care workers. The new system and the new regulations related to it caused severe turbulences in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision made many health care workers question their future plans in Hungary as a professional. As a consequence, in March, several thousands of them decided to quit their job; moreover, many of them even took another step and left the country right away for the possibility to pursue the career they had chosen.
A Hungarian nurse, Csilla, talked to Szeretlek Magyarország about her new life and experience since moving to Germany and working as a nurse in the premature intensive unit of a hospital upon refusing to sign the new contract she was practically forced to accept.
Csilla has a university qualification; she had worked for over 23 years in the Hungarian health care system.
She left the country a little over two months ago.
Unlike many, who did not have a chance and either signed the new contract or left the profession itself, Csilla continues doing what she loves.
Changing, however, was not easy. Partly for having been worked in the Hungarian system, especially during the worst times of the pandemic, which was incredibly challenging mentally, and partly because of the distance there is right now between her and her family. Furthermore, she left her country behind without a solid knowledge of the language.
She says she collapsed mentally when she decided not to sign the contract; she even suffered from post-traumatic stress.
She was unable to organise herself. She just had the urge no to do anything and stare at the ceiling so she would not have to interact with anyone, including her own family.
“It was a month during which I lost control; it was not irreversible, but I felt exhausted and negative. It was a good thing I did not start immediately at another place. It would have gnawed me.”
Meanwhile, she had to start working on her German. She applied through an intermediary company that helped her not only with her language skills but also with her housing. She continues going to German classes several times a week.
Wie kann sie Ungarn lieben,
wenn sie Ungarn verlässt. Die Arbeitsbedingungen für ihre Berufsgruppe sind in Deutschland nicht besser!!!!!
Es ist eine Schande, dass sie ihr Vaterland verrät. Ungarn hat eine viel bessere Impfquote als Deutschland.
Ich liebe Ungarn!
szeretlekmagyarorszag!
We all know that’s you Alfred! She’s not betraying her homeland. What’s the vaccination rate to do with anything. She’s talking about working conditions.