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Starting Monday, soldiers will be there in 93 hospitals to help with health tasks during the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, Defense Minister Tibor Benkő said on Sunday’s M1 night program.
Tibor Benkő emphasized that the soldiers do not perform a task that requires professional health training, they will mainly perform physical and logistical work, they will also help with thermometry. Its main task is to reduce the workload of healthcare workers. he stated.
He also spoke about the fact that since the disinfection work carried out in public educational institutions during the fall break, a request from the army has been received from several other places. Disinfection tasks are carried out continuously by soldiers, including volunteer reservists. In addition, the soldiers are also involved in border security, border closure tasks and the provision of humanitarian corridors, the minister said.
Tibor Benkő was also asked about the fact that Mayor Gergely Karácsony and former Defense Minister Ferenc Juhász also expressed their disgust with the soldiers patrolling the weapon. In response, the Defense Minister emphasized: the soldier is equipped with individual weaponry. He said duty regulations had been enacted since 1974, and the 2005 HM instruction also states that a soldier must conduct patrols, patrols with individual equipment. There is nothing new in this, the minister noted.
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