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The Curia decided on a case that had been going on for years, declaring that a discriminated against in the obstetrics of the Miskolc hospital the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roma women. In its statement on Monday, the legal organization representing the victims, the The European Center for Roma Rights (ERRC) wrote that In its decision of 26 August, the Hungarian Supreme Court upheld the judgments of the Miskolc Court of Justice and the Debrecen Board of Arbitration and determined that the hospital’s practice of providing disposable hygienic clothing to relatives accompanying their mothers was discriminatory against Roma. .
In 2018, it turned out that according to the order from the Miskolc hospital, the relative accompanying the mother had to wear disposable hygienic clothing. However, this was only available in the hospital, at a high cost for low-income families. The hospital defended itself by asking family members to donate only in exchange for clothing, but a survey by a local organization found that donation was mandatory.
The court now agreed with the ERRC’s earlier argument that the hospital directly discriminated on the grounds of wealth, social origin and maternity (pregnancy) as a protected characteristic and indirectly discriminated against Roma mothers who were disproportionately affected by the provision and therefore they were often forced to give birth alone. The court ordered the practice to cease and ordered the hospital to pay a fine of two million florins in the public interest.
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