Index – National – Salaries for nurses and healthcare professionals will increase by twenty percent in November



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In November, the government will increase the salaries of nurses and health professionals by 20 percent, in addition to the 500,000 guilders it gave to health workers in the summer, the parliamentary secretary of state for the ministry said in Maglód on Tuesday Human Resources (Emmi).

Bence Rétvári spoke at the solemn handover of the health center in Maglód, which was established with an investment of more than three hundred million forints, and it is of great help for the municipalities that the state provides support for their health developments, because the management Franchising often causes difficulties. He added that it is important to have someone working in these health centers, so it is decisive that the number of doctors applying for a permit to work abroad in Hungary has decreased by 68.6 per cent in the last decade and the number of nurses applying for such a license has been cut in half. Medical colleges are graduating 30 to 50 percent more than a decade ago, so the number of licensed physicians has risen from 34,000 to 39,000, he added.

The Secretary of State said that in this decade the government had increased health spending by HUF 915 billion, or 76 percent, part of which was spent on developments like Maglódi, hospitals, surgeries and ambulance stations. Bence Rétvári also spoke about the fact that this new institution is already part of a 21st century health system, which also provides space for prevention and preservation of health. With the new approach, we have also managed to increase the number of years dedicated to health and life expectancy by almost two in a decade, he added. Lajos Szucs, Fidesz parliamentary representative in the area, spoke of the health center that Maglód received 80 billion HUF from the framework thanks to a government grant that Pest designed to promote.

(Cover image: Doctors and nurses in protective gear visit the Covid Orthopedic Traumatology Department at St. John’s Hospital in the capital on May 14, 2020. Photo: Zoltán Balogh / MTI)



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