The Democratic Coalition continues its campaign against the healthcare system. Most recently, Gy. Erzsébet Németh spoke about the possibility of mass layoffs due to the change in the employment relationship. This is not the first time that the "most European party" envisions a collapse, and the idea of closing hospitals is not far from it.
"Thousands of healthcare workers are planning to quit due to the government's amendment to the law on the legal relationship of healthcare services brought in during the coronavirus epidemic," said Erzsébet Gy. Németh, the Democratic Coalition's deputy mayor responsible for human affairs, on Friday. The Gyurcsány politician bases his opinion on the fact that more than 1,600 healthcare workers who want to quit signed the survey of the Hungarian Chamber of Healthcare Professionals.
Back in March, when the change in the legal service relationship came into effect, the left also shouted that the Hungarian health care system would collapse, as doctors and professionals would not sign the new contracts, and thus would leave the state care system en masse.
Gy. Erzsébet Németh. Photo: MTI/ Zoltán Balogh
It is not new that the politicians of the Gyurcsány party campaign with a vision of the collapse of the health care sector. Earlier, Klára Dobrev claimed that healthcare workers could receive a hundred thousand less
At the time, the Magyar Nemzet also reported , according to the General Directorate of the National Hospital, 96.3 percent of health workers, more than 106 thousand professionals, chose to enter the health service legal relationship, and only 3.7 percent, barely four thousand people, decided to leave the state structure in addition to leaving, but at the same time, nearly seven hundred new entrants also entered the system.
Of course, DK politicians have attacked the government's health measures not only in connection with the amendment of the legal relationship of employees. In the spring, the government decided that, as part of the protection against the coronavirus, specialist clinics would be placed under hospital management and, in view of the emergency situation, specialist workers would be transferred from the clinics.
At the press conference held in connection with this, Imre László, the mayor of Újbuda of the Democratic Coalition, and Erzsébet Németh Gy. claimed that the government is endangering people's lives with the decision.
Later, Imre László admitted in the ATV studio that the lack of doctors and specialists transferred from the clinics to the hospitals did not cause any major interruptions in the care.
It was also Imre László who talked about closing hospitals . In his opinion, there are unjustifiably many hospitals operating in the country, so sixty or seventy should be closed, as was done before 2010, when several institutions were closed under the banner of health reform.
It should be remembered that during the reign of the Gyurcsány governments, significant transformations affecting the health care system took place, which included drastic hospital closures. In addition, the number of active beds was reduced in many hospitals, mergers and capacity reductions took place.
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
Featured image illustration. MH/Robert Hegedüs
