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.
Science and Tech Minister Zoltán Tanács told POLITICO that Hungary had cleared all the legal barriers to accessing EU research funding under Horizon Europe.
The health ministry has developed a methodology to measure, validate and publish the spread of nosocomial infections and published recommendations on the matter, the health minister said at a commemoration marking Semmelweis Day on Tuesday.
