The catastrophic situation in the healthcare sector is already threatening patient care.
In the heat of July, the ordeal of hospitals and healthcare institutions continued across the country. According to RTL Híradó’s report on Thursday, radiation treatment for cancer patients has stopped in Miskolc because the climate has deteriorated. – For a while, only two of the three radiation therapy devices were working, but now none are working. “No, it’s not good, we will inform everyone when they can come, there are 140 patients,” they said at the hospital. In response to an official request, they wrote that treatments can start again next Tuesday.
The situation at the children’s clinic in Debrecen is simply hellish. They keep parents bringing in fans and air coolers, but the 32-degree Celsius heat is still unbearable. There are places where the sun is shining because the blackout curtain has been torn.
“We spent three nights there, it’s hell,” said the mother of a sick child, whose husband brought in blankets, towels, blackouts, and fans instead of air conditioning.
In recent days, Népszava also reported on several hospitals where the air conditioning was also destroyed, and operations had to be postponed. According to Tamás Svéd, secretary general of the Hungarian Medical Chamber, the situation is already detrimental to patient care and much more money is needed. This was also confirmed by health expert Zsombor Kunetz, who said that the main problem was that health was ranked at the back of the list of domestic sectors.
The climate in one of the operating theaters of the Bethesda Children’s Hospital has broken down, a collection has been started to repair it The climate has broken down, the children are lying in sterile boxes at 32 degrees Celsius in the transplant department of the Szent László Hospital Operations have also stopped in several hospitals in the capital due to the heat, 41 in the Uzsoki operating room, 38 in the Szent János degrees were measured
Source: nepszava.hu
