Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) has launched a major operation against an alleged criminal network involved in supplying ventilators and medical masks to the state during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A humanitarian aid project supporting people wounded in the Ukraine war has been successfully completed in Budapest, providing 100 patients with modern, custom-fitted prosthetic limbs.
Doctors at Semmelweis University have performed Hungary’s first three-way living-donor kidney cross-transplant, the institution announced at a press conference held there on Wednesday.
Hungary is launching a new programme aimed at cutting hospital waiting times by expanding surgery into afternoons and weekends, while offering extra financial incentives to medical teams. The move comes as patients in some hospitals still face waits of several months for planned procedures.
More than half of Hungarians opted for private healthcare, even though the fees for private medical examinations rose on average in August by nearly four times the annual inflation rate on a year-over-year basis, based on data from NN Insurance’s latest representative survey.
