- Zsolt Hegedűs invited Katalin Karikó to the advisory committee for health.
- Before the parliamentary committee, Hegedűs criticized the negative statistics of the Hungarian healthcare system.
- The future minister declared healthcare as a central topic of the incoming Tisza government.
- Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize for research on mRNA vaccines against covid.
The candidate of the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Péter Magyar for the post Zsolt Hegedűs, Minister of Health announced on Monday at a hearing before the parliamentary committee on health that Nobel Prize winner Katalin Karikó accepted his invitation to become a member of the advisory committee for health. With reference to the index.hu server, the TASR correspondent in Budapest informs about it.
The orthopedist Hegedűs, whose dance during the victorious election night of the Tisza party went around the world, repeated his dance last Saturday at the public celebrations on Kossuth square after the constituent session of the newly elected parliament. pointed out before the committee the negative statistical data of the Hungarian health care system. According to him, it is necessary to invest in human resources, because otherwise the system will not work.
The future minister also emphasized that healthcare is a central theme of the Tisza government. “I believe in a healthcare system that is transparent and patient-centered,” added Hegedűs. Biochemist Katalin Karikó won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with American immunologist Drew Weissman for research that led to the development of the first vaccines against the disease COVID-19 with mRNA technology.
