On Tuesday, Péter Magyar, president of the TISZA Part, visited the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital in Budapest, where he recorded videos documenting infrastructure problems. According to his footage, the elevator functioned erratically, and while toilet paper was available, there was no disinfectant or paper towels in the restrooms.
The videos triggered an aggressive response from Péter Takács, Hungary’s State Secretary for Health. In a Facebook video, Takács addressed Magyar with the words:
“Listen here, you shameless nobody!”
He accused Magyar of being mentally unstable due to “continuous failures,” claimed he had “broken into” a hospital facility, allegedly pushed aside a security guard, and filmed inside a building where psychiatric patients are treated.
Takács ended his message with:
“Get the hell out of hospitals!”
Magyar Péter denied the accusations in a statement to RTL News, saying no guards were pushed aside and that security personnel simply followed them while also filming.
RTL also contacted the hospital. The response came from the Ministry of Interior, which claimed that Magyar Péter “lied chaotically,” that the videos do not reflect the real operation of the facility, and that hospital operations were “undisturbed.”
(0:00) Péter Magyar’s shamelessness has once again reached a new level.
(0:04) After the so-called child-protection protest ended in complete disinterest.
(0:10) Let’s be honest: in Budapest, getting one or two thousand people out onto the streets is not exactly a big achievement.
(0:16) And yet he managed to organize one of the lowest-attendance demonstrations in Budapest’s history.
(0:22) So from here as well, my heartfelt congratulations to you, Péter.
(0:24) Driven by frustration and anger, he has once again attacked hospitals.
(0:30) My colleagues have just informed me that this political fortune-hunter
(0:34) broke into one of the facilities of the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital this afternoon,
(0:39) into a building where psychiatric patients are also treated.
(0:42) Pushing aside the security guard who tried to warn him,
(0:46) with his face distorted by rage, he filmed everything in order to create another scandal.
(0:49) Listen here, you shameless nobody.
(0:52) As a lawyer, you should know perfectly well that health data enjoy special legal protection,
(0:58) and among them, the personal rights of people living with mental and psychiatric illnesses are especially protected.
(1:04) Your nervous system must certainly be worn down by your constant failures.
(1:08) But I suggest that you do not take out your frustration on hospitals, not on patients,
(1:12) and certainly not on psychiatric patients.
(1:15) Get the hell out of hospitals.