A total of 33.1 billion forints (EUR 111m) has been allocated in extra funding to 93 hospitals for paying their overdue bills for suppliers, the Minister of State for Healthcare Miklós Szócska announced on Wednesday.
The Minister of State for Social Inclusion believes that Hungary and Montenegro may successfully cooperate in the resolution of the situation of the Roma; the Western-Balkans country is aware that the issue of minorities must be addressed.
The 13th Hungarian Film Festival, scheduled to screen 15 Hungarian films, was opened by Minister of State for Culture János Halász in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Extremists who ride on tensions present in Hungarian society should be rejected, Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary in charge of social cohesion, told a conference on Wednesday.
It is a long path that leads to the ultimate success of the inclusion strategy; however, we may now see the signs of the positive changes that it has induced, the Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources said on Saturday in Komló.
Within the framework of the sub-programmes that form part of the „For the Road” scholarship scheme designed to support disadvantaged young people, some 14 thousand pupils in total will receive aid as a result of a significant increase in the sum available for awarding, the Minister of State for Social Inclusion Zoltán Kovács said at his press conference held on Tuesday in Ács in Komárom-Esztergom County.
Social Work Day draws attention to the fact that social services help build society and to those who work in the interests of the disadvantaged, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog said on Monday in Budapest.
Zoltán Kovács, Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources paid a visit to Szerencs to attend the local opening event of the Child Chance programme funded from the New Széchenyi Plan with an allocation of some HUF 600 million.
Zoltán Kovács, Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources attended a roundtable discussion held on the occasion of Science Day. At the conference held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, experts shared their views on the Hungarian Roma population’s state of health and the care system available to them with a view to closing the gap between science and policy.
More than 200 Hungarian Roma pilgrims attended the papal audience on Saint Peter's Square in Rome on Wednesday morning.