Abusing human rights in the health care service under a soft dictatorship in Hungary

Gábor Ternák

Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Medical Ethics

Extract
Torture probably ended a long time ago in my country, but now we have more sophisticated ways of abusing human rights – in the way we deliver health care. The falsification of morbidity and mortality figures; not paying attention to the so-called ‘Capitalist’ diseases like drug abuse and even AIDS; not talking about the hazards of environmental pollution – all this has prevented us from taking ameliorating and protective measures.


Ternák G. Abusing human rights in the health care service under a soft dictatorship in Hungary. J Med Ethics. 1991;17(Supplement):40.