For two months, a blanket of furnace has weighed on Central Europe and in particular Hungary, with temperatures ranging from 35° to 40°. In hospitals, the suffocating heat has become a political issue driven by the main opponent of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
With our correspondent in Budapest, Florence Labruyère
The Hungarian government bans the press from hospitals. But it cannot ban opposition leader Péter Magyar, who is a member of the European Parliament. The Prime Minister’s new rival Viktor Orban So he visits the hospitals, thermometer in hand: “ Here we are at the Péterffy hospital and at noon it is already 38.8 degrees. This is reality! This afternoon the temperature will surely exceed 40 degrees. “In many hospitals it was 38 degrees this summer, even in intensive care patients. Either there is no air conditioning or it is broken.
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With his phone, Péter Magyar films the misery: no soap or disinfectant in the rooms or toilets, ceilings that are collapsing, elevators that have been broken for ages. The government prefers to invest in propaganda, denounces the politician: ” In Hungary, the Minister of Propaganda, Antal Rogan, has a budget of 650 billion forints per year! »
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