In the recent broadcast of Abszolut, György Velkey, the director general of the Bethesda Children's Hospital, was the guest of host Andrea Földi-Kovács. In the new part, among other things, the importance of vaccination against the coronavirus, the ethics of the medical community, and the problem of early sexualization of children were discussed.
According to György Velkey, there has been a social debate about the vaccination of children, but Hungary has largely avoided this problem. According to him, Hungary is at the forefront of vaccination discipline. According to the pediatrician, in the last hundred years in our country, such a serious culture of vaccinations has developed that society understands their necessity and importance.
Dr. György Velkey, director general of the Bethesda Children's Hospital/photo: vasarnap.hu
The director general of Bethesda Children's Hospital said that the past year and a half has been a very long and difficult time in the lives of children. The quarantine situation due to the epidemic and the resulting social deficit had a negative impact on their development, since they live and develop in large communities.
"The development of a child's body and mind deserves unconditional respect," the pediatrician emphasized. Security is very important to them, they need a moral background that they can hold on to - so that they can smooth out the ups and downs they experience in adolescence - later on. If they have this moral background, they get to know themselves, he explained.
Regarding childhood gender reassignment, the pediatrician firmly stated that this should not be a social issue, only in very rare cases can such corrective interventions be used, when it is required by a truly rare genetic disease. The hospital director feels that all levels of society are under increasing pressure due to the change in general moral standards. The medical community is no exception to this. Velkey distinguishes two types of medical ethics. One is a more homogenous, conservative, Christian medical ethics, the other is general medical ethics, which is strongly influenced by the prevailing social ethics. As an example, he mentioned abortion, which was certainly not as widely used anywhere in the world a hundred years ago as it is now. Regarding the toxic tendency affecting adolescence, he said:
"Early sexualization can distort children's development very strongly."
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