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State secretary for health tenders resignation
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Budapest (MTI) – Gabor Zombor, state secretary for health care, has asked to be relieved of his duties from August 31, the human resources ministry said.
Zombor cited personal and family reasons for his resignation, the ministry said. His interim replacement will be Attila Beneda until Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog recommends a new state secretary to the prime minister.
Zombor was appointed to the position in June of 2014 after the swearing in of the new Fidesz government. He has been a Fidesz MP since 2006.
“The minister acknowledges with regret that a professional of great expertise is leaving the helm of health care,” the ministry said in its statement.
Government office chief Janos Lazar told a regular government press conference on Thursday that the prime minister and the human resources minister had total confidence in the departing state secretary, whose work had been “exceptional”. He noted that it was for family reasons that Zombor had tendered his resignation.
Opposition parties said Zombor’s resignation was a sign of failure of the government’s health-care policies.
LMP
The LMP party said Zombor’s resignation just one day after the government held a policy conference shows that there is “no will in the Orban government to tackle the crisis in the health-care sector”. “Letting the state secretary go won’t solve anything; they simply need to put a lot more money into saving the sector and paying off hospital debt,” Istvan Ikotity, the party’s health spokesman, said in a statement.