Private Hospital In Telki To Close Down
- 2 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
From July 11th the private hospital in Telki will shut down for good. The building has been sold due to its unrewarding operation, which means inpatient services will terminate in the elite institution. According to the owner, it was an extremely hard decision to make, because for 15 years he believed there was a future for private hospitals in Hungary that could operate on a market basis offering high-quality patient care without any gratuity payments.
“For a long time we were hoping for a normative financial support for social insurance due to the health care reform”- said Gábor Kovács the owner of the hospital.
The investor also said, that with the extensive gratuity system and the different activities of private health insurance companies and the general health care, a mixed-financed model has emerged, where patients always find themselves in public hospitals in order to pay less. “Until this system remains the same, there is no hope for a profitable operation of inpatient care.”
Although, there has been a high demand for the private hospital’s services (more than 50,000 people over the years) due to increasing waiting times and bad service quality in state-run medical institutions, Telki hospital still operated with a loss in the past 15 years.
Doctors of the hospital will continue working in the Clinic of Budakeszi street, where solely general endoscopic examinations and minor surgical procedures will be carried out.
Words by Tímea Klincsek for XpatLoop.com
Source: origo.hu and index.hu
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