“And what will happen to the city hospitals—good afternoon!
So if you build one so-called super hospital for every three counties, that means a facility with at least 1,500–2,000 active beds, which requires an enormous number of doctors and nurses. Where are they supposed to come from? Will they be taken from elsewhere—perhaps from the city hospitals?
Then what happens to places like Kapuvár, Csorna, Pápa, and others?
A left-leaning healthcare expert even said on ATV that maintaining and developing super hospitals and small city hospitals at the same time simply does not work. This was already stated during the Centrum Hospital program years ago—even under the Gyurcsány government—that these two models cannot coexist.
But you can’t win elections by openly saying, ‘I’m closing hospitals.’
So our position is that these city-level hospitals must be preserved within a portfolio that matches the actual local healthcare needs.
You cannot do this to families—you can’t force them to travel 80 kilometers just to visit their grandfather. What kind of inhumane thinking is that?
So I would strongly caution everyone: the idea of a super hospital sounds great, but in reality it means a hospital-closure program.”
And this is where the biggest contradiction appears 👇
In 2018, when the South Buda Central Hospital and the entire central hospital system were being planned at full speed,
when:
- they were talking about 1,200–2,000-bed mega hospitals,
- promising healthcare coverage for 1.2 million people,
- rolling out glossy visual plans, project companies, and billions in preparatory spending,
👉 somehow the lack of doctors and nurses never came up.
Even though:
- the staffing crisis did not begin in 2024–2025,
- healthcare workers did not disappear overnight,
- emigration, burnout, and retirement have been ongoing since after 2010.
So the question is legitimate—and unavoidable:
📌 If today the problem is that there aren’t enough staff for a super hospital,
then where were the doctors and nurses supposed to come from in 2018?
📌 Where were they supposed to appear from?
📌 Or did it simply not matter back then?
🎭 What are we actually seeing?
What Péter Takács is saying today is:
- not a new realization,
- but a retrospective justification for why a politically marketed, but professionally flawed project ultimately failed.
In 2018:
- they made promises,
- they celebrated it,
- they campaigned on it.
In 2024–2026:
- they point to staff shortages,
- as if this had not been foreseeable all along.
👉 This is not a professional mistake.
👉 It is political irresponsibility—now repackaged as “sober criticism.”