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Almost 10.000 immigrants has undergone medical screening, 262 of them had infectious diseases
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The government is ready to propose a new law to the Parliament which would make it mandatory for immigrants to undergo medical screening. In 2015, 9705 immigrants had such a screening, and 2.7% of the results were positive.
János Lázár said that immigrants refuse to undergo medical screening, which would be helpful in order to determine if they have hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, HIV, or other diseases, because some of the examined immigrants had. It would be good to know if they are healthy or not, both for their sake and for the country’s as well.
Index.hu was informed by the State Secretariat for Healthcare’s PR Department that in 2015 9705 immigrants has undergone medical screening so far, and the results were positive in 262 cases. Among others there were 11 people diagnosed with HIV, 72 with Hepatitis B, 18 with Hepatitis C, and 33 with syphilis. There’s no record of tuberculosis yet.
Based on the data 2.7% of the immigrants had some kind of a disease, while 97.3% was completely healthy. However, it is reckless to try and apply the results to the immigrants as a whole, because people who were screened all volunteered. It is unknown if the volunteers were willing to undergo the screening because they presumed that they are ill, so the results are higher than they actually should be, or people avoided the screening because they were afraid of the positive results. In this case, the result is lower than it actually is.