Data Regarding Wait Time for Surgeries Disappears from Official Website While the backlog of hospital treatment across Hungary grew to record heights, some important data regarding Hungary’s hospital wait lists... 2022.02.07.
MSZP Calls for Stand-Alone Health Ministry, Making Health Care Priority The opposition Socialists call on the government to dedicate a separate ministry to health care with a competent leader at... 2021.01.04.
PMO Head: Hungary Health Care Proved World-Class in Pandemic Hungarian health-care workers deserve praise for providing the best possible care during the coronavirus pandemic, the prime minister's chief of... 2020.12.31.
Socialists Welcome EU ‘Health-Care Union’ Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi on Saturday welcomed the European Union's decision to raise the bloc's health-care funding to 5.1 billion... 2020.12.12.
Health Fund: Number of Patients Waiting for Operations 60 pc Down since 2012 The number of patients that need to wait for operations has been reduced by some 60 percent since 2012, and... 2020.06.29.
Coronavirus: Opposition and Trade Unions Urge One-Off Bonus for Left-Out Social Sector In April, the government announced a one-time gross subsidy payment of HUF 500,000 (EUR 1,445) for all healthcare workers, which... 2020.06.25.
Press: Several Intensive Care Units Receive Ventilators Unfit for Hospital Use Several health-care workers claim that the government has delivered dozens of ventilators aimed to help coronavirus patients, to several intensive... 2020.05.16.
Dental Services Resume with Strict Precautionary Measures On Monday, with the easing of restrictions, life slowly started again around the country. Strict curfew restrictions were lifted in the... 2020.05.07.
Hungary Restarts Regular Health Services Amid Strict Hygiene Regulations Hungary’s general healthcare services resume on Monday, May 4th. Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler sent a letter and detailed instructions... 2020.05.04.
Hospital Stay Longest in Hungary among EU Members Yearly, Hungarians spend almost ten days in the hospital per capita, making the Hungarian data the worst in the European... 2020.01.15.
President’s Office on Health Care Changes: Budapest Mayor Causing Unwarranted Alarm The mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, is causing unwarranted alarm over the new law on social benefits, an official of... 2019.12.20.
President Áder: Those Who Provoke Unjustified Fears are Shameful, not New Social Law President János Áder issued a statement on Wednesday regarding legislation approved by parliament on Dec. 11 affecting eligibility for social... 2019.12.18.
Párbeszéd Protests with Coffin against ‘Inhuman’ Health Insurance Law The opposition Párbeszéd party on Monday staged a protest at the president's office against a new law tightening social benefit... 2019.12.16.
Socialists: Health Care ‘a Chaos’ A lawmaker of the opposition Socialists (MSZP) on Thursday harshly criticised the situation surrounding Hungarian hospitals and health care as... 2019.12.13.
Trade Minister: New South Korean Investments to Create 300 Jobs in Hungary Investments by four South Korean companies in Hungary worth a combined 70 billion forints (EUR 211.6m) will create 300 new... 2019.12.12.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Health Care in the Political Debate Pro-government commentators accuse the opposition of demagoguery when it comes to health care. A left-wing columnist finds the government’s proposed... 2019.12.02.
European Commission: Hungarian Health System below EU Average Despite Improvements Yesterday, the European Commission published reports that depict the profile of health systems in 30 countries in the European Union.... 2019.11.29.
Over 400 Unfilled GP Practices in Hungary Management portal mfor.hu collected the figures from budget closure accounts showing how the number of vacant GP practices in Hungary has... 2019.10.10.
Out-of-patience Doctors Show Red Card to Government The Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK) held its much-anticipated Assembly this past Saturday at the Vasúttörténeti Park (Railway History Park), which... 2019.09.23.
Karácsony Pledges to Make Budapest ‘Free and Green’ Gergely Karácsony, the joint leftist-liberal opposition candidate for Budapest mayor, presented his election programme on Sunday, in which he pledged... 2019.09.23.
Survey Shows Most Glaring Issues of Budapest According to Residents People living in Budapest identify the same things as the most burning issues regardless of gender, age and party affiliation,... 2019.09.18.
