Health-care trainings for Hungarians across borders draw hundreds, says official

The government’s online training programmes for Hungarian health-care professionals across the borders have drawn as many as 200 people per course, a government official said on Monday.

Árpád János Potápi, the state secretary in charge of policies for Hungarian communities abroad, said his office is holding online trainings for health-care professionals in February, in the framework of a scheme that assigns monthly topics in 2021, “the year of national renewal”.

Between February 5 and 26, the weekend trainings target pediatricians, nurses and psychologists and are open to laymen too, Potápi said.

Even during the pandemic, the organisers think of all Hungarians “as a united Hungarian nation”, Potápi said.

The programme aims to help those in the greatest need of assistance, the health-care workers, he said.

Spreading Hungarian good practices across the region will enrich Hungarian professionals across the borders as well as foster cross-border networks and friendships, Potápi said.

As we wrote yesterday, every fifth healthcare worker thinks that they will not accept their new contract. Instead, they plan to leave the Hungarian healthcare system to work somewhere else or abroad. That is because of a new law accepted by the parliament in October concerning the service of healthcare professionals. Details HERE.