SMA screening to continue in Hungary

Hungary’s health service will continue to offer screening newborn babies for SMA, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office told a regular press briefing on Thursday, adding that the central budget had allocated a total 450 million forints (EUR 1.17m) for this purpose in 2024.

Gergely Gulyás said the screenings would continue to be offered at Szeged University, at Budapest’s Semmelweis University and at the Bethesda Paediatric Hospital “to each baby if requested”.

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On another subject, Gulyás said the government had authorised the minister of transport to elaborate on details of the rules governing transport passes facilitated under an agreement between the government and the city of Budapest. He said the changes, effective from March 1, would “benefit everybody”.

Concerning press reports suggesting that an Italian suspect in the Antifa attacks was being held in demeaning conditions in a Budapest prison, Gulyás said all conditions met European Union and Hungarian requirements. He added that the reports had been aimed to defame Hungary.

Source: MTI