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Interior Ministry proposes 18% pay rise for nurses
The interior ministry said healthcare staff in non-medical areas would be included in the program.
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Government to spend HUF 13.6 billion to shorten healthcare waiting lists
Miklós Kásler said the Hungarian government is spending HUF 13.6 billion (EUR 34.6m) on shortening waiting lists in Hungarian healthcare.
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Hungary offers to help Romania in wake of hospital fire
The foreign minister said he had sent a letter to Romanian counterpart Bogdan Aurescu offering his condolences as well as Hungary’s help.
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Government grants HUF 50 billion to support Hungarian health sector
The finance minister said the focus is on manufacturing rubber gloves, masks, medicines, disinfectants, ventilators and other medical equipment.
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Five Hungarian healthcare businesses receive government support
Further contracts are planned to be signed under the scheme, and the aim is to allocate a total of HUF 50 billion through tenders.
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Hungary's health services are ready for peak of the second wave
Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic is “more serious” than the first.
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Healthcare professionals received another 20 percent pay rise on November 1
The pay rise program has raised healthcare workers’ salaries by a combined 42 percent over the past two years.
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PM Orbán: Doctor pay rise is to keep talent in Hungary
The prime minister said there was “no time like the present” after lawmakers passed doctor's pay rises earlier this week.
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Parliament approves massive wage hike for doctors
Hungary's parliament has approved a major wage hike for doctors, to be carried out in several stages starting next year.
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Hungarian government allocates HUF 60 billion to revamp 17 Budapest hospitals
The government will revamp 17 Budapest hospitals to improve hygiene infrastructure in preparation of a potential second wave of the novel coronavirus epidemic.
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PM Orbán: The Hungarian healthcare system performed better than those in Western European countries
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said today that if the coronavirus epidemic returns, we will not hesitate to take the necessary legal and economic steps in order to save people’s lives.
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Hungary is committed to healthcare cooperation with Belt and Road countries
The finance minister said Hungary will do everything required of it to strengthen cooperation between its own healthcare system and those of the other members of China’s Belt and Road initiative.
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Duping the Financial Times into publishing fake news
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, voters may have faced one of the most unpleasant attempts to produce fake news by Hungary’s left-wing opposition. Of course they couldn’t fool anyone, except maybe the Financial Times, but it does show that there are people who would do anything to damage the Orbán government.