The mayor only learned from Facebook that the care of patients within the obstetrics department of the local hospital would be suspended.

On November 4, the care of patients within the obstetrics and gynecology department of Keszthely Hospital will cease, the activities will be taken over by the surrounding hospitals, the hospital announced on his Facebook page Friday. They say: outpatient care, pregnancy care and gynecological care will continue to be provided.

“Measures related to the centralization of health care by professional organizations aim to create patient safety. As a result, expectant mothers and patients receive health care in institutions that represent a higher professional level – able to intervene immediately even in complicated cases,” explained the co- close

The new mayor of Keszthely, who was elected in June, wants immediate and detailed information on the matter. Gergely Tóth only learned about the closure from the hospital’s Facebook post. He says since the new management took over, they have been fighting to keep all departments in the local hospital and to ensure that the quality of care does not decline.

Your Facebook post according to him, on Thursday he consulted with the management of the hospital and with Bálint Nagy, the representative of the town in the parliament. According to Tóth, Nagy said at the time: the operation of the hospital is stable and will remain so. According to him, stable operation cannot be called for the closure of the patient department, and he cannot accept the decision.

The future and sustainability of the local hospital is the choice of the local government one of his important campaign themes it was in Cessthely, where Fidesz was replaced after thirty years. According to Jenő Manninger, former mayor and former member of parliament, one of the reasons for the case was that the operation of the hospital’s gynecology department was suspended for several weeks during the campaign. “It’s not a local authority’s responsibility, but it was easy to set fire to us.” We restarted with the help of the government, but this was only compensation,” he said on Facebook Manninger, according to whom this was a topic on which the opposition in Fidesz found a grip on him.

The local opposition announced a torchlight march to save the hospital this spring, where many people were unexpectedly present. “It was a high ball for us,” admitted Gergely Tóth after the election in the Válasz Online article. Bálint Nagy, Fidesz parliamentary representative and secretary of state transport, was able to restart the gynecology-obstetrics department after a break of a few weeks. Patient care in the ward will now cease again.