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Nearly 1,000 doctors leave Hungary each year to settle elsewhere in Europe, reports Hungarian daily Népszava, adding that the situation particularly concerns specialists.
Hungarian doctors earn one-and-a-half times the average Hungarian salary, the paper explains, adding that there are insufficient resources to ensure and develop medical care. Doctors are therefore tempted abroad by better working and living conditions.
Currently 1,634 doctors and 3,433 other medical staff are needed to run the county's health care system properly, according to official statistics, Népszava says.
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