Where Viktor Orbán says there is enough space, it is also to breathe and to be human.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

“At the request of the National Institute of Pneumology Korányi, the Government Office of the capital city of Budapest, acting in the field of public health, decided the need for secondment to provide care in health crisis,” reads a decision government issued by Népszava on Thursday. The document reveals that the hospital already wrote on Monday, September 14, “The number of beds has been provided for the full performance of epidemiological tasks, and no human resources have been provided on their own.”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Kossuth radio on Friday morning: “because the word got out in the left-wing press that there were not enough beds and capacity in Korányi, and I thought I would leave at dawn so I was there at six o’clock”. He said he found that “of course there is enough space, there is enough fan and now there are still enough people.”

This was somewhat contradicted by the video of the visit, in which the doctor telling Orbán said that although there is a ventilator, there are not enough technicians to handle it. It is true that the Prime Minister intervened here and diverted the floor.

In addition, the newspaper is in possession of the decision of the National Center for Public Health of September 14, according to which it was the first to write on Wednesday: “The South Pest Central Hospital (formerly San Ladislao) and the Korányi National Institute of Pulmonology they no longer have free ventilation capacity. “


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