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Angry patients attack Hungarian doctors for the immunity certificate
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Hungarian family doctors and their assistants are practically being attacked by all those angry patients who, despite having been vaccinated, still have not received their immunity certificates.
As summer is getting closer and half of the country wants to recuperate last year’s summer holiday, the immunity certificate gains even more importance. Especially as
more and more countries accept the plastic card in return for free entry into the country.
As Daily News Hungary reported, foreigners are having issues with obtaining the plastic card.
In reality, a huge number of Hungarian citizens has to face the same problem.
Many Hungarian patients who were inoculated already, are still waiting for the certificate that would grant them some freedom. Moreover, even health care workers complain about the same problem.
In a lot of cases, we talk about several months of waiting.
Many Hungarians think that their family doctor can help. In vain, though, as these professionals can not see in their system whether a patient’s card has already been manufactured, on the way or still needs to be made. Even those offices that deal with documents issued by the government send the patients to their family doctor to ask for further information; as the offices say, those who did not get their immunity certificate are not in their system. Many doctors asked by 24.hu say that they receive 5-10 calls a day about the issue. It is especially challenging to check these information and find all data needed to produce the certificate already uploaded in the system. However, they still cannot do anything for the patients since, as mentioned above, doctors can not see any information related to the production or the delivery of the plastic cards.
Furthermore, Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office and CecÃlia Müller, Surgeon General, also pushed patients towards finding out the missing information this way. When in reality, it takes only a couple of minutes to find out whether someone inoculated is not registered in the electronic health care system, and thus his card is yet to be manufactured and sent. In case someone does not have access to this system, that is when he should ask for the help of a family doctor.
Ten phone calls a day related to the matter does not sound much, but it is a huge extra effort for doctors who already have so much to do.
They treat patients during the week in their regular schedule; they vaccinate people often by doing overtime; most of the doctors even inoculate on the weekends.
The process, already on its own, comes with extra work as doctors need to decide who gets which jab; they are writing text messages to patients with the help of their assistants on where to go and where to pick up the vaccine.
It is being done “arse about”.
Should have been planed that when you were Immunized – 14 days after your initial shot of vaccine, you were handed your Vaccination Card.
Sorry but major stuff ups like this stress it is placing on citizens those responsible should be seriously scorned.
Getting to a stage that you could say, the powers to be couldn’t “organize a root in a brothel”.
Government needs to throw additional numbers of resources into this calamity.
Does appear serious amount of shifting blame occurring in the rank and file of the area of Government responsible for the production of our Vaccination Cards.
Government just FIX it if that takes people working around the clock – FIX it.
Citizens and Doctors all in the Medical Profession are exhausted enough without this cataclysmic disaster.
Fix it ASAP.
We experienced no problems whatsoever with the entire process.
Vaccinations were performed at Semmelweiss University and ‘immunity card’ arrived by post within two weeks of the first injection.
“What, me worry ?”
I need to go to the UK for a few days to sort out a few things there. Neither the Hungarian Vaccination Certificate card, nor the Sinopharm vaccination are recognised there as being acceptable, Hungary is not on the UK green list, so a three day trip would involve a 14 day quarantine in a government approved quarantine hotel at a cost of appx 742k huf. I guess London will have to wait. While on the subject of cards, just a quick reminder to people wishing to visit the UK at some time, from 1st October you will no longer be able to enter the UK using an ID card (személyi igazolvány). Visitors will need a valid passport.
Alfred – judging by your usual comments (although not on this article, yet) it would take more than an ‘immunity card’ to make you socially acceptable in any context. Unless you enjoy sitting alone in restaurants and bars all alone and being avoided like the plague, the card won’t really be of much use to you.
The point is that regardless if Mr. MAD Alfred got his card (perhaps by a B’nose connection to someone in the OV sphere), may people are saying they have not received a card and have little recourse to getting one in the rather broken system.
As usual, “ANONYMOUS” has shown himself to be nothing but a third-rate “bunkó”.
Perhaps he should attend pre-school and obtain a RUDIMENTARY education.