Chamber of Doctors: the vaccination process of Hungarian healthcare professionals is chaotic

The Hungarian Chamber of Doctors (Magyar Orvosi Kamara, MOK) informed that the vaccination process of healthcare professionals is chaotic and uncoordinated – those who receive the vaccine first are not rationally chosen, and it is complicated to apply.

According to Telex, secretary of the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors, Tamás Svéd informed on their website about the start of the vaccination process of healthcare professionals. For example, a mother that stays home with a baby, a retired professor, and administrative co-workers belong to the group of people that received the coronavirus vaccine in the first round.

Vaccination takes place in 25 different areas in the country, and the plan is to vaccinate firstly 4500 people and secondly 35 000 people.

“It is sad that the safety and reliability of planning and organising, the lobbying power of Hungary in getting the vaccines only allows this, about 40 000 vaccines for 140 000 healthcare professionals and 10 million residents.”, says Svéd.

The vaccines that arrived in Hungary so far would allow vaccinating about 80 000 people, but according to Svéd, they do not trust that enough vaccines for the second dose will arrive in time, so they keep half of the amount for that purpose. With that, however, there is a risk that the vaccines that would need to be used in a couple of days go to waste.

In the meantime, the second and third shipments of vaccines arrived in Hungary, but due to the lack of a priority system, the distribution of these is somewhat questionable.