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Unions Appeal Against Law on Health Staff Status An alliance of trade unions in the health sector has appealed to the ombudsman and to international organisations over passages of the law governing the legal status of health-care personnel, which they say “seriously violate” the constitution. The Union for Health, including organisations of doctors, medical universities, ambulance and other health-care staff, said in a statement on Tuesday that the contested stipulations stripped employees of their right to a collective agreement and severely curbed their right to strike. The alliance the...

Starting this year, giving and receiving gratuity for medical treatment will be severely punished in Hungary. The aim of the measure is to eliminate this type of corruption that has been rampant in Hungary’s health sector for many decades. Gratuity payments to a healthcare worker for treatment, known as parasolvency, is an extremely common practice in the healthcare sector in Hungary, as a centuries-old tradition. As a result of low wages and poor working conditions in the sector, many doctors and nurses accept money offered by patients as gratuity. People are motivated to pay their doctors...