In Szombathely, the average waiting time is 73 days — which actually puts the city among the worst in the country. Don’t let them mislead you! They might just be trying to push you into the private sector. Book an appointment with a different doctor or simply go to Csorna — it’s only about a 30-minute drive on Route 86 — and you can get seen within three weeks.
Healthcare is a field where the job is never truly done. There is always a new challenge — just think of the sudden emergence of a global pandemic that we had to respond to and prepare for. I believe Hungary’s healthcare workers and service system performed excellently. There is always a new technology, a new medicine — always another step forward to take.
Of course, we don’t have endless resources, but we are always guided by the determination to address people’s real problems. We are a government that doesn’t sweep issues under the rug or deny them — we identify them, we work out the solutions, we have a vision, we know exactly where we want to go, and we carry out that plan.
Even if we only talk about infrastructure: if I could, I would put our critics — our political opponents — into a time machine and send them back to 2008 to look around Hungarian hospitals, to see the state of the ambulance service back then — the ambulances were more than 13 years old and completely worn out.
And where are we now? Since we came into government, we have renovated — fully or at least partially — 91 hospitals and countless outpatient clinics. Under the Hungarian Village Program alone, we have renovated 625 medical offices. That’s a huge achievement. We have purchased 1,160 ambulances, and by the end of this year we will acquire another hund
There are 111 hospitals in Hungary in 2025.
So if 50 are “blocked”…
well, math clearly isn’t Fidesz’s best friend.