Surge in Covid Cases Begins to Overwhelm Hungary’s Healthcare System
The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is now putting significantly more pressure on Hungary’s healthcare system than ever before. More and more hospitals are operating at their maximum capacity, younger and healthier people are being infected more frequently, and deaths are increasing. The sudden surge is taking a terrible toll on healthcare workers’ mental and physical health.
Since Wednesday, there are 8,329 people hospitalized, a few hundred more than the December record of the second wave.
The number of people on ventilators, 911, has also exceeded previous numbers. The situation only seems to be getting worse.
Amid coronavirus, healthcare faces increasing pressure. 4,000 workers departed after refusing to sign the new contract following a controversial new law.
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Not the first restrictions to hit the newspaper delivery service
Magyar Hang is printed in the Slovak capital Bratislava because its publishers were unable to find any Hungarian companies prepared to print the newspaper, says Lukacs. He said the editorial board is already devising plans B,C and D for the event that Magyar Posta discontinues weekly delivery service.
He said one possibility would be to stuff 5,000 envelopes every Thursday with the newspapers and take them to the post office for delivery. But he said that would cost three to four times as much as the existing service, as well as being more time-consuming. Another possibility would be to sell the newspaper at kiosks and food stores. But as well as being cumbersome, those kinds of approaches would likely cost publishers subscribers, too. As publishers of a small newspaper we cannot afford to build up our own nationwide delivery service, Lukacs adds.