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Gyula Kincses, president of the Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK), requested the suspension of deferred (elective) benefits in epidemiological hospitals in a letter to Minister Miklós Kásler, citing the lack of personnel and capacity based on comments received from his colleagues. The Human Resources Ministry (Emmi) responded to his letter Monday night, saying enough of everything that talks about lack of capacity or is intentionally distorted or ignores the facts, so elective benefits do not stop at any side.
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“The increasing number of coronavirus cases places an increasing burden on the care system. To increase security of supply and reduce the number of orders needed at designated institutions, suspend the provision of deferred benefits,” wrote the president of the MOK, Gyula Kincses, in her letter on Monday.
Elective care
- establishes intensive and anesthesiological capacities (human and mechanical), which compromise an effective defense,
- puts patients at risk of infection,
- in the event that new hospital foci develop, there is a good chance that the infection will spread and contribute to the further spread of the epidemic,
- all of which could force new healthcare workers into quarantine, further reducing the required capacity.
All of this asked the MOK, not to stop all elective care, but to suspend deferred benefits only at epidemiological hospitals or their coronavirus facilities.
Emmi: no staff shortage
We sincerely regret that the President of the Hungarian Medical Chamber has once again joined the chorus of unrest and falsehoods of the opposition. The first sentence of Professor Dr. Miklós Kásler’s open letter to the Minister is a big mistake
Emmi started her reply.
The ministry reiterated that now, as in the spring, the care centers will be opened in stages and patients and professionals will focus mainly on institutions with extensive experience and expertise. Doctors and nurses are being reassigned from hospitals that are not currently involved in infection control.
“Anyone who talks about lack of capacity is intentionally misrepresented or is unaware of the facts. In fact, bed occupancy is currently 53 percent in Hungarian hospitals. Therefore, 47 percent of beds are not sick, therefore what a significant part of the hospital capacity is free. and there is a specialist. We do not have to stop any elective care, as the president of the MOK now proposes, “wrote Emmi.
The proportion of supervised physicians and professionals can be measured in just one thousandth of all healthcare workers. 4 per thousand doctors and only 2 per thousand of the specialists received instructions to cure the most severe coronavirus patients. While 47 percent of hospital beds are not sick, Emmi wrote in her response, that she did not address which skilled workers were being redirected. (According to doctors on social media, there is a shortage of intensive care professionals to care for Covid patients. to ed.)
Hungarian healthcare can perform the tasks associated with the growing number of patients and cure all patients.
Emmi said.
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