In addition to its unabashed “Hungary for the Hungarians” nationalism, the right-wing Jobbik has been actively campaigning on a pledge to clean up Hungary’s endemic corruption. As we saw yesterday, party chief Gábor Vona appeared with Hungarian Doctors’ Association president Géza Gyenes (pic at left from this “Jobbik TV” video of the event) to rail against official sleaze. Only one problem: That same day, a survey by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International was published showing that the most common form of bribe in Hungary is to doctors like Gyenes. Seems like these two might want to get a checkup to see if their hypocrisies aren’t dangerously inflamed, or at least start taking some daily irony supplements.
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like the saying goes:
a rotten apple a day keeps the doctor at bay…
Bribes go ‘to doctors like Gyenes’! But not to him? This snide piece of writing hopes to slander without having technically done so. (‘Oh, no Your Honour! I didn’t say that Dr Gyenes takes bribes. I said that doctors like him do!’)
Are we talking about bribes or gratuity (tips), which is usually paid to underpaid workers for good service?
The doctors I visit earn several 100 KHUFs per month.
Underpaid is not the words that come to mind.
Your normal HaziOrvos get min 750 000 per month to run 20 h practice per week, incl nurse. This is calculated on the average 1.500 patients connected to the doctor. It is not active patients, that varies between districts depending on age of the population.
On top of that any normal HaziOrvos makes extra hours on other places, so the net income will not be so small.
When you then put 50+ KHUF per day in un-taxed pocket money, they earn rather good.
This is an old tradition that goes back long time before 1990.
He was my GP twenty something years ago…
I’d say Hungary is corrupt anyways, and it starts in the Parlaiment…