The Omicron variant of the coronavirus caused 98 percent of all infections last week, Hungary’s chief medical officer said on Thursday, and called on Hungarians to take the third jab to bolster protection, which she said waned four months after the second jab.
Cecília Müller told news channel M1 that the “stealth” subvariant of omicron, which is more difficult to detect than other subvariants, is more infectious than other subvariants but its clinical symptoms are similar.
Meanwhile, trace amounts of the coronavirus in waste water, an indicator of trends of the epidemic in the coming weeks, stagnated last week, Müller said.
The method was developed by Hungary’s National Public Health Centre (NNK), and the WHO is recommending it for use in other countries,
Altogether 99 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 12,885 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday. So far 6,376,902 people have received a first jab, while 6,127,609 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,746,680 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections stands at 231,613, while
hospitals are treating 5,198 Covid-19 patients, 198 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 1,684,432 have been registered with the virus, while 42,269 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,410,550 people have made a recovery.
In the spring of 2020, at the time the transaction was made, it was already known that one type of ventilator did not meet the requirements of safe use and that its faults could even endanger patients’ lives.
As stated in the article of 24.hu, the Hungarian government bought Chinese ventilators from Malaysian businessman Vinod Sekhar for a total of HUF 178 billion (EUR 501 million) during the first wave of the coronavirus. The shipment of 6,258 machines arrived in Hungary via GR Technologies, a company owned by Sekhar.
at the time of the huge purchase by Hungary, it was already known that one of the models sold by Sekhar did not meet the requirements of safe use and that its defects could even endanger the lives of patients.
A shipment of ventilators getting unloaded in Hungary in May 2020, controversially purchased by Hungary at the height of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Source: kormany.hu
The aforementioned model is the Shangrila 510S. In the UK, a 60-page report was published on the investigation into the machine. Following concerns raised in the report, the Department of Health withdrew 750 ventilators from use.
According to the article of MalaysiaNow, the SH300 model also included in the Hungarian shipment was reported in Colombia for having serious issues as well. According to reports in the country,
at least six people were killed by the model, as the machines unexpectedly stopped on multiple occasions and transmitted incorrect data.
24.hu says that it is not known exactly how much Sekhar eventually made from the Hungarian deal, but shortly after he delivered the ventilators, he bought a luxury yacht and a Bombardier BD-700-1A10 private jet.
Also in November last year, MalaysiaNow reported that Malaysian authorities had raided the offices of Sekhar’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. According to the paper, the billionaire businessman was under investigation on the suspicion of money laundering.
As reported in mfor.hu’s article, in Hungary, the majority of the 16,000 ventilators purchased during the epidemic are in storage facilities, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has started selling and giving away the surplus.
A woman shared a tragic and horrifying story with RTL Klub, the most-viewed TV channel in Hungary. The hospital where her mother died claims that they did not find any irregularities.
According to blikk.hu, the woman claims that the nurses and healthcare workers at Ferenc Jahn Hospital Budapest humiliated, hit, and starved her mother in the intensive care department. Later, her mother died. However, the daughter felt
she had to share her mother’s terrifying story with RTL News.
She said that her mother suffered from chronic inflammatory lung disease (COPD) and was put on a ventilator the moment she was hospitalised. Then, doctors performed a laryngectomy on her. As a result, she could not communicate. She got weaker and weaker with each day. Her daughter claims that the healthcare workers did not pay attention to her. She particularly mentioned two nurses. Interestingly, two hospital workers, who wanted to remain anonymous, confirmed that suspicion. They said that they also noticed the rudeness of the two nurses, but they were not brave enough to report it.
“This silence and quiet that is around what had happened… I am, and we all are guilty because we tolerated it,” one of them said in an altered voice to the TV channel’s news.
The nurses said to the woman’s mother that it was useless to pay attention to her because she would inevitably die. Therefore, she decided to take her mother home. That is when she noticed the bruises and bedsores on her mother’s body. Her mother said that the nurses hurt her. She claims that the family regularly visited her mother. However, her mother kept complaining that she did not receive enough food and drink. Therefore, she was continuously hungry.
One of the family members took a photo of a sterile bowl, in which a dead bedbug was floating. They showed it to RTL News.
Photo: PrtScr/RTL News
The woman filed a complaint to the hospital but received no reply. RTL News asked the hospital as well. The institution said that they conducted an internal investigation but found no irregularities. They did not mention anything about abuse.
“We Hungarians are a kind-hearted people; in times of trouble we pull together with enormous strength,” First Lady Anita Herczegh said in her address to the First National Civil Conference in Budapest on Friday.
Herczeg, a member of the board of trustees of the Istvan Regoczi Foundation which supports children who have been orphaned or semi-orphaned due to Covid-19, praised charity work undertaken by civil groups and volunteers, adding: “We must prove our love not with words but through actions.”
“Civil activists, volunteers, and donors will walk the cohesive path of love; we not only wish for the benefit of others but also serve that goal,” she said, adding “this goodwill service is our mission”.
The First Lady praised the efforts of the Hungarian Maltese Charity, the Catholic Charity, and the Hungarian Red Cross. “More and more people have helped the sick, health-care staff, those in [Covid] isolation and families of the victims,” she said.
Herczegh noted that 1,200 children had lost one or both parents in the coronavirus pandemic, and said that her and President János Áder’s initiative for the Regőczi István Foundation was aimed at helping those orphans in the long run.
Addressing the same conference, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said
“civil activists are those that recognise the hardships of individuals and communities and work to find actual solutions”.
“When we talk about the civil sector, we don’t mean NGO’s stuffed with funds from obscure sources … acting as the extended hands of speculators wishing to interfere,” Gulyás said, adding that such organisations “change their position according to the daily interests of their paymasters.” In leftist circles, “a civil organisation is one financed by George Soros”, he added. “But now, when Amnesty International, one of George Soros’s favourites, the new Israeli government has declared an organisation supporting terrorism, the left wing should reconsider the definition of a civil group,” Gulyás said.
Gulyás noted that in 2020 there had been 60,673 foundations, non-profit organisations and associations, while the number of “civil groups in the classical sense” was also over 53,000 in Hungary. “This is a huge number and civil activities cover all areas,” he added.
At the conference, the For Value-building Communities awards were handed out. The two awards went to Piroska Kontha, founder of a hospice operated by the Reformed Church in Majosháza, south of Budapest, as well as the Reformed Church for Szatmar association in north-eastern Hungary.
Developments in oncology in Hungary are making steady progress but cancer is still the world’s “most serious” disease, Miklós Kásler, the minister for human resources, said marking World Cancer Day on Friday.
There is a long tradition in oncology research, diagnostics, therapy and epidemiological data collection in Hungary, the minister told a news conference. In 1993, at the invitation of the World Health Organization (WHO), Hungary drew up its first European cancer control programme, which has been continuously renewed since and became a government programme in 2018, he noted.
Its aim is to compile and implement a national action programme to curb cancer mortality and make increase the efficacy of treatments, he said, adding that its components involve prevention, screening, early diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation.
Cervical cancer screening started in 1993, followed by breast screening launched in 2002, and colon and rectal cancer screening at the population level in 2018, he noted. Their effectiveness, however, largely depends on the participation rate.
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) started in 2014 for girls in the 7th grade and boys in their last school year, with 80 percent of girls and 66 percent of boys receiving the vaccination, which it is obligatory to recommend.
Cecília Müller, the Head of the National Centre for Public Health, just announced that the new, more contagious variant of Omicron has appeared in Hungary. The dominant variant is still the “regular” Omicron, which has triggered a new wave of the pandemic in Hungary.
As 24.hu reported, in an interview with TV2, on Friday morning, Cecília Müller revealed that the BA2 version of Omicron has reached Hungary. However, as Müller said, there is no reason to be alarmed by this variant. As far as we know at the moment,
it has the same clinical behaviour as the “regular” Omicron variant, and it does not cause more serious pathology, nor does it attack other organs.
She added that in European countries, the proportion of this BA2 variant ranges from 1 to 15%.
According to Napi.hu, as of Friday, 16,435 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, and 105 patients had died. A day ago, 17,894 new infections and 88 deaths were reported. Simultaneously, the number of infected people requiring hospital care has increased, which has been accompanied by an increase in the number of patients needing ventilators.
According to 24.hu’s article, the BA2 version is spreading slightly faster than the already fast-spreading Omicron. The BA2 was first found in China a few weeks ago and is generally believed to have originated from India, as Portfolio.hu recently reported on this variant.
Müller also said in the statement today that, according to our current knowledge, this new variant does not seem to change the current epidemic situation,
Regarding the Omicron variant, Müller said that it is getting further divided into sub-variants, and this new variant is the so-called “stealth Omicron”. In practice, this means that the variant can still be detected with conventional PCR tests, but there are specific tests that this new variant bypasses, according to Portfolio.hu. However, as mentioned above, this new variant is currently known not to cause more severe symptoms and has the same clinical behaviour as the regular Omicron.
Müller says the new wave of outbreaks caused by Omicron may be on the wane: a high number of cases are being detected, but fewer every day, although the concentration of the coronavirus hereditary material is still increasing in the wastewater.
Nevertheless, she expects that next week, “we may see the end of the tunnel”.
György Póta said that the fifth wave caused by the Omicron variant would be past its zenith in Hungary. However, he added that, until then, many children and young adults would catch the virus. Meanwhile, MTI published that 105 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, and 16,435 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hungary.
According to blikk.hu, Mr Póta said it was good news that the number of patients treated in hospitals did not rise in the last few weeks despite the steep rise in the number of new infections. He highlighted that most children produce only light symptoms.
Young boy receives the first jab in a Hungarian hospital. Photo: MTI/Komka Péter
György Póta said that the fifth wave would be over in a couple of weeks thanks to the protective measures the government introduced.
He added that when Hungary would get past the fifth wave’s peak, the number of new infections would steeply decrease.
Many virologists say that the virulent Omicron variant can result in an almost complete immunisation against COVID-19. As a result, future waves would only cause symptoms similar to the common cold. Thus, we could finally say goodbye to any future restrictions.
So far, 6,369,089 people have received the first jab, while 6,111,632 have been double-jabbed. 3,712,974 Hungarians have received a booster shot. The number of active infections stands at 227,407, while hospitals are treating 4,588 Covid-19 patients, 168 of whom are intubated on a ventilator. The website said that the Omicron variant accounts for 94 per cent of all infections.
Since the first outbreak, 1,616,846 patients have been registered with the virus, while 41,741 deaths have been recorded. 1,347,698 people have made a full recovery.
Altogether 88 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 17,894 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
So far 6,366,402 people have received a first jab, while 6,107,843 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,700,305 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections stands at 227,899, while hospitals are treating 4,451 Covid-19 patients, 163 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
The website said the Omicron variant accounts for 94 percent of all infections.
Since the first outbreak, 1,600,411 have been registered with the virus, while 41,636 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,330,876 people have made a recovery.
The opposition will restore the Swiss indexation method for the calculation of pensions and will offer people better health care if it wins the April 3 general election, representatives of LMP, the Democratic Coalition and the Socialist Party said on Wednesday.
The government’s re-introduction of the 13th month pension “isn’t enough to make up for the last 12 years”, LMP co-leader Erzsébet Schmuck told a joint press conference.
The new government will ensure the elderly a secure livelihood, will make health care accessible to them and offer them cultural and community services, as well as education opportunities, she said.
Democratic Coalition deputy leader Erik Konczer said the opposition would preserve the 13th month pension if it formed the next government and implement further measures in the interests of pensioners.
The elderly need to be offered the opportunity for flexible retirement, he said, underlining the need to introduce a pension correction scheme that will prevent those with smaller pensions from sliding into poverty.
Lajos Kórózs, the (Socialist) head of parliament’s welfare committee, said the opposition had vowed to officially recognise caregiving as employment and to pay caregivers the minimum wage.
The new government will establish a new advocacy system for pensioners, he said, adding that it would never take any decision concerning pensioners without first seeking the opinions of the elderly.
Altogether 77 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 19,690 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
So far 6,365,250 people have received a first jab, while 6,105,342 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,693,859 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections has risen to 230,549, while
hospitals are treating 4,341 Covid-19 patients, 163 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 1,582,517 have been registered with the virus, while 41,548 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,310,420 people have made a recovery.
Unfortunately, it is a sad reality, but every person on earth will someday pass away. How people spend their last days and how they die are important questions, though.
To find out which countries provide good end-of-life, aka palliative care, Eric Finkelstein and his team of researchers took on the mantle of collecting data on the matter and creating a grading system of countries based on the quality of their palliative care. A suggestion of sorts of where it is the most peaceful or easy for people to pass away.
Bigthink.com interpreted their findings and published an article on the list of 81 countries.
Their method
Eric Finkelstein and his researchers first needed to establish what criteria to consider when creating the ranking. In order to do this, they systematically analysed 309 articles to identify the indicators of good palliative care.
Using the results of their detailed review, they determined 13 overall indicators on which they could build their ranking. They include:
the places where healthcare providers treated patients were clean, safe, and comfortable;
the patient was able to be cared for and die at their place of choice;
healthcare providers provided appropriate levels and quality of life-extending treatments;
healthcare professionals supported patient’s spiritual, religious, and cultural needs;
care was well-coordinated across different healthcare providers;
healthcare providers controlled pain and discomfort to the patient’s desired levels;
healthcare providers helped the patient cope emotionally.
According to Bigthink, while the indicators were established, further research was needed to establish how these indicators compared to each other, which ones were more important than others.
The site writes that the team of researchers surveyed 1,250 caregivers from different countries who have cared for someone who had since passed away. According to their answers, this is how the indicators rank:
Relative importance for each indicator. Note: error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Source: Finkelstein et al. / Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
The ranking
According to Hamuésgyémánt, to establish the ranking, the researchers asked hundreds of experts from 161 countries to establish the rating.
The experts had to be 1) a representative of the country’s national hospice or palliative care association or a similar national professional association, 2) healthcare providers involved in end-of-life treatment, or 3) a government employee with academic knowledge on the matter.
At least two surveyed experts needed to answer from a specific country to qualify them for the ranking.
Rankings of countries (and Hong Kong and Taiwan) based on input from country experts Source: Finkelstein et al. / Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
In the end, 81 countries made the list representing 81% of the world’s population.
Hungary finished 25th on the ranking,
and while many European countries fared better, Hungary was still found to have better palliative care than Spain, Denmark, Romania, the US, and it clearly surpassed Greece, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine with the awarded points.
You can find the full study at the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, or by clicking HERE.
A recent Hungarian study shows that the lack of antibodies does indeed suggest lower protection against Covid-19.
As HVG reported, researchers measured the neutralising antibodies of people vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine and compared the results with the disease data of people also vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine.
With this, it was revealed that antibody levels are indeed a good predictor of immunity and that the lack of antibodies in elderly people vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine does suggest that they are less protected against Covid-19.
As Telex wrote, the results of the research were published in the scientific journal BMC Infectious Diseases, and they found that while 90% of people under the age of 50 had measurable levels of the antibody, 25% of people over 60 and 50% of people over 80 had no neutralising antibodies.
“Based on these findings, it seems clear that elderly people vaccinated with Sinopharm are much less protected against the coronavirus than younger people.”
The authors of the study are Tamás Ferenci, associate professor and biostatistician at the University of Óbuda, and Balázs Sarkadi, an academic and medical biochemist at the Natural Sciences Research Centre of the Eötvös Loránd Kutatási Hálózat (Eötvös Loránd Research Network, ELKH).
Photo: MTI/Vasvári Tamás
During the experiment, a total of 450 people were tested for antibodies to a part of the coronavirus spike protein between 1 April and 21 June 2021. Measurements were taken at least 14 days after the second dose of the Sinopharm vaccine.
The study found that antibody levels decrease with age.
Telex already reported on the study and its key findings in July when it was made available in unedited form. However, an important development has taken place since then: at the end of November, the first study was published showing the protection levels of vaccines used in Hungary, broken down by vaccine type and age.
Referring to this, Miklós Kásler (Minister of Human Resources) said:
“Vaccination with the Sinopharm vaccine provides a broader spectrum of protection than all other vaccines.”
Unfortunately, however, this study did not cover the period when the effectiveness of the vaccines began to decline significantly due to the length of time that had elapsed. Despite this, it was still a landmark study because it was the first to provide meaningful data in a professional format on the performance of vaccines in Hungary.
Altogether 78 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 17,869 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
So far 6,351,476 people have received a first jab, while 6,089,784 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,594,529 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections has risen to 225,801, while hospitals are treating 3,463 Covid-19 patients, 145 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 1,508,358 have been registered with the virus, while 41,229 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,241,328 people have made a recovery.
Altogether 64 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 19,213 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
So far 6,347,426 people have received a first jab, while 6,085,866 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,573,570 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections has risen to 215,839, while hospitals are treating 3,267 Covid-19 patients, 157 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 1,490,489 have been registered with the virus, while 41,151 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,233,499 people have made a recovery.
Altogether 69 patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 20,174 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
So far 6,345,766 people have received a first jab, while 6,083,949 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,567,044 Hungarians have received a booster shot.
The number of active infections has risen to 205,376, while hospitals are treating 3,145 Covid-19 patients, 164 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 1,471,276 have been registered with the virus, while 41,087 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,224,813 people have made a recovery.
Meanwhile, the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) found that the
COVID quick tests in Hungary are more expensive than the EU average.
Index.hu said that the body started a survey last December. Therefore, GVH suggested the government allow selling such tests in the different market chains, drugstores and fuel stations. As a result, their cost could be lower. Provided the government does not agree, GVH suggested introducing a price cap in the case of quick tests.
The united opposition will ensure that everybody has access to high quality public health services if it wins the April 3 general election, representatives of the Democratic Coalition (DK), Párbeszéd, and Momentum parties told an online press conference on Monday.
Zoltán Komáromi, DK’s health spokesman, accused the government of transforming public health care into pay-for services “by stealth”, and insisted that private health care was “increasingly controlled by oligarchs and beneficiaries of the system”. The next government will have the obligation to build “a decent, state-financed system available to everybody”, he said.
Parbeszed co-leader Tímea Szabó said the “privatisation by stealth” of the health sector had started when “the social security contribution was made into a tax”. She said the principle that contributions are spent on the area they were collected for specifically should be upheld since taxes “can be spent on anything the government chooses to”. The government, she added, had in effect “built sports stadiums” using national insurance funds.
Szabó insisted that
nurses’ pay was being “kept low” with a switch-over to private health care in mind.
The opposition, she added, promised to hike nurses’ pay and restore the prestige of the profession.
Momentum’s Gábor Havasi said the government had “deliberately neglected” health services in the past twelve years while supporting private services, and he insisted that private health care was largely controlled by circles close to the government. Public health care, he said, was “opaque and fragmented”, and patients found it difficult to get referrals to appropriate specialists.
Ruling Fidesz said in reaction that Hungary’s left-wing parties would privatise the health-care sector, shut down hospitals and re-introduce co-payments for doctor’s visits and hospital stays if they came to power after the election.
“Their prime ministerial candidate has gone as far as telling women that they do not need a doctor to be present when giving birth and that people with eye conditions should go have surgery in India,”
the party said in a statement. “The left’s campaign promises are completely irrelevant as they proved in 2006 when they lied throughout the campaign and went on to impose austerity measures and close hospitals when they got into government.”
After the booster shot, the vaccination card will be valid indefinitely.
Vaccination card instead of immunity card
On 13 January, Gergely Gulyás, the Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, announced at the Cabinet briefing (Kormányinfó) that the current immunity card will turn into a vaccination card from 15 February. The government decree on the vaccination card was later published in Magyar Közlöny.
As Telex reported, from that day on, only the ones who are vaccinated will have a valid card, the Government Information Centre (GIC) said in a statement. According to GIC,
“Unvaccinated people will not be eligible for a vaccination card. Any current immunity certificate that was issued for contracting the infection will lose its validity.”
The card will be valid for six months after the second dose, after which the validity will be extended only after the third (booster) shot. If someone becomes infected after the second vaccination, their card will be valid for six months from the date of the confirmation of the infection.
After the third (booster) vaccination, the validity of the card will be indefinite. For those vaccinated with the single-dose Janssen (Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine), there will be a separate rule.
They must take the second vaccination (which is the booster shot in their case) within 6 months for the card to remain valid.
For those under 18 years of age, one jab for the single-dose vaccine and two jabs for the double-dose vaccine are sufficient for the immunity card to remain valid.
There will be no need to replace the current immunity cards, the QR code will be used to check the validity of the document. The GIC also emphasises in its statement that operators of sites and organisers of events that are only accessible to vaccinated persons must check the vaccination cards.
Fake vaccination certificates
Even though these certificates are important in making sure that everyone has taken the necessary measures to stay safe in the COVID situation, some people resort to trying to obtain fake vaccination cards.
What is even sadder is that some doctors assist in it.
As we wrote in one of our previous articles, doctors had started to take part in these illegal activities, as well as asking for great amounts of money from these “customers”. Thankfully, the Hungarian police managed to track down those who have taken part in issuing fake vaccination certificates.
A Hungarian woman has been in a coma for 8 years. A few months ago, her ex-husband sued her for not paying child support.
The story
As Blikkreported in August 2021, Katalin Varga has been in a coma for eight years. After an operation to remove a benign brain tumour, a bacteria attacked her body, and she went into a vegetative state. What is more, the hospital where she contracted the bacteria did not even treat her with antibiotics for a whole week.
Her 59-year-old mother, Éva Kistaj, has been caring for Katalin ever since she took her home from the hospital.
Katalin has two children whom their father took in after the tragedy. Since then, he has not even brought the siblings to the grandparents to visit, and he will not let them see their mother at all.
“In the first three years, my daughter used to look at the door and cry a lot when her children were mentioned, or when she heard their voices in old videos,”
Katalin is able to sense everything: she can hear, see, and feel. But she cannot move freely. She is awake, communicates by blinking, can close her mouth on demand, and follows movements with her eyes. Her mother is with her 24/7 and helps her with everything.
If all this was not bad enough, her ex-husband sued Katalin for child support. The children’s father has also initiated an enforcement action against the grandmother, claiming money from her for the maintenance of blood relatives. The grandmother and the mother have accumulated debts of more than HUF 400,000 (EUR 1,123) and can be visited by the debt collector at any moment.
Now, on January 20, atv.hu reported that Katalin can now move her arms and legs and even smile. However, there is still a long road to recovery. The accumulated debts of her and her mother are now HUF 600,000 (EUR 1,685) which they should pay to the debt collector. But there is no money to pay all that. Every forint is needed to keep the mother of two alive and to rehabilitate her.
Even though her father did not let her see her mother, Eszter, the daughter of Katalin, has been visiting her mother quite frequently since she turned 18 years old. Perhaps it is thanks to her visits that her mother’s condition is rapidly improving.
“A few days ago, the doctor noticed that my daughter can smile now. She moves her limbs to music and responds positively to exercise. To others, these may seem like small victories, everyday miracles, but they are important for Kata’s recovery,”
says the grandmother.
“I thank God every day that my beautiful daughter is alive. Sometimes strangers come to me to help, some with a prayer, others with a conversation. I get a lot of faith and love from them.”
