Many People in Hungary Cheating the System to Get Vaccinated
Mass vaccination in Hungary started at the end of December with the inoculation of healthcare workers. Unfortunately, according to the reports of several doctors and even the Hungarian Medical Chamber, it faces quite a few difficulties including major technical problems. In addition to these, it seems with some luck and finagling, many people- even those who do not directly work with Covid patients or in some cases are not even healthcare workers themselves- can easily get vaccinated.
In an article, liberal news site 444.hu reported that due to Hungary’s lack of vaccination priority order among healthcare professionals, it is often those who do not even work with coronavirus patients who are the ones vaccinated before those working on the front line. Furthermore, it seems there are many who are not even healthcare workers but have managed to receive the coronavirus vaccine by cheating the system.
Péter Cseresnyés 2021.01.08.
Last year, just like in most countries in the world, was about the coronavirus pandemic in Hungary as well. We take a look at how this dangerous disease started spreading in the country, hoping that the recently started mass vaccination will soon render the virus a thing of the past. Summary.
In Hungary, from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in March until the very end of 2020, a shocking 322,514 coronavirus cases were registered, and 9,537 people died. This means that almost every hundredth fatality of the last year in the country was due to the coronavirus.
The first two coronavirus cases were registered by the authorities in Hungary on March 4, 2020, after which the virus started spreading rapidly. Less than two weeks later on the 15th of March, the first coronavirus-related death occurred.
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 staff said on Thursday. The health-care system deployed enough doctors, nurses and equipment at all times, he said.
In an interview to commercial broadcaster atv, Gergely Gulyás slammed the opposition for putting all their efforts into “smear campaigns against the government and the health-care system, and into producing fake videos lambasting nurses.”
The pandemic-related mortality rate puts Hungarian health care on par with French, Swedish and Croatian services, Gulyás said. That achievement is in itself ample justification for the “enormous and unprecedented” wage rise for doctors, which will come into effect on Friday, with a law outlawing gratuity payments, he said. The same goes for the 72 percent wage rise for nurses due during the next cycle, he said.