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As things stand, preparation for the coronavirus epidemic is likely to continue throughout the year in 2021, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest on Monday morning after handing over his appointment papers to the heads of the General Directorate of the National Hospital.
Before the end of 2021 “we will not pass the crisis” – emphasized the prime minister, adding that there may be easier stages after the first dose of vaccine and then after the massive arrival of the vaccine, “but by the time everything returns to normal, it will take at least a full year.”
He called the functions of the Director of the National Hospital and his deputies the summit of medical work and health management, and then thanked them for taking on the difficult and highly responsible task. For hospitals to function well, the directors of the institutions and their managers must present skills that would not otherwise be the strengths of the Hungarian public administration in the current situation. – emphasized Viktor Orbán, who described the culture of cooperation as the most important.
The leaders of the General Directorate of the National Hospital should work with the Prime Minister, the head of operational staff and the Minister in charge of professional management at the same time, he stressed. He added that after members of the government, the heads of the general directorate may have to work harder throughout the Hungarian state administration. “In times of crisis, standing on a barrier like the one you will be in the next few months is a difficult but also honorable task. You have the confidence of the whole country (…) Remember, all life matters,” he concluded. words of Viktor Orbán.
It was decided on November 17
Also present were the Interior Minister Sándor Pintér and Miklós Kásler, Minister of Human Resources. The head of government appointed Zoltán Jenei, who was previously economic director of the Somogy County Police Headquarters and later rector of the University of Pécs, as director general of the national hospital.
His alternates are Gabriella Bábiné Szottfried, Ildikó Bene, Bálint Szabó, Péter Takács and Tamás Tóbiás.
At the appointment ceremony, Bertalan Havasi, Undersecretary of State in charge of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, recalled that on November 17 the government decided by decree to establish the National General Directorate of Hospitals. The General Directorate is a central budgetary body under the direction of the Minister of Health, headed by the General Director of the National Hospital. According to the law, the General Directorate of the National Hospital is administered by the chief of the operational staff, that is, the Minister of the Interior, during the emergency, he explained. The Director General of the National Hospital is appointed and removed by the Prime Minister.
The General Director of the National Hospital performs tasks related to the maintenance of public health institutions and exercises systemic and institutional management rights over all elements of the institutional health system. This right is complemented by strong employer rights, said Bertalan Havasi. He added that among the other tasks of the Director General, it is worth highlighting the management of the State Sanitary Reserve now, at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
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