Index – National – Billions for ventilators, shortage of hospital specialists



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Mfor. The decision shows that this is the European Commission’s RescEU program, in which, as part of the fight against coronavirus, we committed to stockpiling certain medical supplies in March, in exchange for EU support. So we not only store our own fans, but

The now-subsidized facility will also act as a central warehouse for the EU.

At the same time as yesterday’s government decision, the Index wrote that the National Institute of Koranyi and Pulmonology and St. László Hospital, which were designated to carry out epidemiological tasks, and today St. John Hospital are requesting the transfer of specialists and volunteers for

can no longer fulfill its epidemic duties,

its ventilation capacity is full from the point of view of human resources.

As the Index reported in June, the Hungarian government ordered around 16,000 fans, worth roughly HUF 300 billion. According to the advertisements of the mentioned hospitals

a team of professionals capable of handling the machines

Much less money has already been paid and much less attention has been paid to its installation.

The ministry is responding

On Thursday night, the Ministry of Human Resources announced in a statement that “neither the Korányi nor the Szent László hospitals have full ventilation capacity. As in Hungarian medical care, all personal and material conditions in these two institutions are in place for the continued care of patients. “

(Cover image: BM Heros Zrt. Technicians mount a fan in a huge tent with filtered air that meets the highest hygiene and safety requirements installed in the company’s industrial warehouse in Kőbánya on May 28, 2020. zrt ., on the serial production of the fan developed by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

MTI / Márton Mónus)



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