According to MTI, Kulja said in the program aired by commercial broadcaster ATV late on Monday that he represented those “who have been let down by this system”.
He insisted that the government regarded a patient as “just a data point in an Excel spreadsheet”, while Tisza would create a patient-centered and humane health-care system.
He added that he received thousands of letters from patients and relatives concerning waiting times and hospital conditions.
Takács, the state secretary for health care at the interior ministry, said the government and his ministry did not “shy away from debate”, adding that since 2010 funding for Hungarian healthcare had grown 3.5-fold and its real growth increased by 250 percent under the Fidesz government.
“We don’t deny there are problems,” he said. “We’re identifying them and making progress in solving them systematically…” he said.
After the debate, Klára Dobrev, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), said “issues around national health care cannot be resolved through lies … nor through Facebook posts”.
“It won’t do, guys; lies and propaganda on one side, influencers, haughtiness, loud lecturing on the other … without professionalism,” she said.
She also suggested that “the debate could have been so different” had Zoltán Komáromi, DK’s health expert, been involved, but “they are not brave enough to have a debate with him.”
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