Hungary has reached a major milestone in transplant medicine, with the 13,000th organ transplant successfully performed on September 4 — a life-saving liver transplant carried out at Semmelweis University’s Department of Surgery, Transplantation and Gastroenterology. The announcement came in a statement from the Organ Coordination Office of the Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service (OVSZ) on Wednesday.
Hungary is among the best-performing countries in the European Union when it comes to access to healthcare, announced Peter Takacs State Secretary for Health. In a Facebook post, he highlighted that only 1.4 percent of patients in Hungary fail to receive timely or appropriate care—one of the lowest rates in the EU and an improvement from the previous 1.6 percent figure.
The gap between public and private specialist care in Hungary has widened, according to a nationwide survey. While both sectors face challenges, one in five Hungarians now opts for private care—primarily due to shorter waiting times, better facilities, and more advanced equipment.
The EU’s health commissioner says there’s “no time to lose” as he lays out a raft of plans in the Life Sciences Strategy for sectors that need urgent assistance.
