You should have been expelled’: Gay conversion debate erupts within Libs

The Liberal party will on Tuesday decide whether to support state government laws to ban gay conversion therapy. 

Liberal fundraising chief offered meetings with party leaders in return for Woodman donations

He needs to feel the anger': Liberal MPs demand face-to-face meeting with O'Brien

In a Sunday-night email, five Liberals from the right of the party requested a meeting this week, representing a significant upping of internal pressure on the Victorian Opposition Leader.

Hungary’s government has faced criticism for purchasing more ventilators than can be realistically deployed and for paying China much more per unit than other European countries. While Hungary purchased 567 tons of respiratory equipment from China for 482 million euros ($564 million), Germany purchased nearly twice that weight for less than 31 million euros ($36 million.)

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says Hungary has permission to sell some of the county’s ventilator surplus to potential buyers.

In the United States, some doctors now don’t see ventilators as the best hope for coronavirus patients and are trying many other interventions to avoid keeping patients off them if they can.

Hungary’s shortages of health care workers predates the coronavirus pandemic: doctors have emigrated in large numbers since the country joined the European Union in 2004.

Figures from the OECD show that around 1,400 new doctors were licensed in Hungary in 2017, but nearly 1,000 left the country the following year. Many others have left the public system to practice at private clinics due to low public salaries.

Despite recent pay raises to doctors and nurses, Hungary remains near the bottom in the EU on investments in its health care system relative to GDP. Additionally, patients often pay tips or bribes to doctors in exchange for better treatment despite efforts to end the practice.

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