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New Budapest leadership rejects Buda superhospital, claims PM’s Office
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The majority of councillors in Budapest’s new municipal assembly have failed to back plans for a superhospital in southern Buda and have refused to approve city financing for further health-care projects, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday.
At his regular press briefing, Gergely Gulyás called it “bad news” that the assembly on Wednesday rejected two related amendments proposed by the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance.
One concerned the construction of the superhospital and the other a 10 billion forint (EUR 29.7m) contribution by the municipal assembly to funding the upgrade of the city’s health-care institutions, he said.
Budapest’s public projects council will convene next week at the request of Mayor Gergely Karácsony to discuss with the government the municipality’s conditions, Gulyás said.
He added that he would try and convince the mayor that the city should not veto the superhospital project.
The city should also “contribute to its health budget if they really consider that a priority,” he added. “It would compromise the city’s creditability if they refused to spend any money on health services out of a budget of 300 billion forints,” Gulyás said. He added that many of the conditions set by the municipal leadership coincided with the government’s plans, and some of them had been written into in next year’s budget.