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The president of the Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK) sent a recommendation to the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) entitled Ethical considerations for the allocation of medical resources during the Covid-19 pandemic in Hungary prepared by the Medical Chamber, for which he requested support from Minister Miklós Kásler. The recommendation states that a lottery should be used to decide which patients with the same perspective should receive care first. In his response, the Minister of Human Resources wrote that he could not identify with the content of the recommendation, and even emphatically rejects all motions that contradict the Hippocratic Oath, writes Magyar Nemzet.
For example, the MOK recommendation is that doctors decide by lot what patient to give priority to another, that is, who should die and who survives:
Patients with similar perspectives based on established ethical principles and clinical trials should be given equal opportunities through random selection (eg, by lottery) rather than those previously admitted first. Then they will proceed as follows:
“It is particularly important that the selection of lotteries or other equal opportunities is prepared in a transparent way for the interested parties and that it is carried out in a documented way, allowing any evidence that may be required at a later date …”
In connection with the surprising proposal of the leadership of the Medical Chamber, on the question of the Hungarian Nation, the Ministry stated that the government and The lives of all Hungarians are important to Emmi, and the current strict restrictive measures, the ministerial instructions issued, the suspension of deferred interventions and the conscious preparation that has been carried out for months serve the objective of having enough beds, equipment , medicines and specialists in the future. . They stand out: no one, no member of the government has ever said that the next term will be easy. It will be very difficult, and it will require a lot of resignation, effort, adjustment and hard work on the part of frontline healthcare workers. However, they are reluctant to decide, by lottery, as the MOK recommends, which patient should be given priority over the other, who would die, and who would survive. Health workers have never sworn that, they declared.
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