This Is How Orbán Let Go of Healthcare Reform – Hemorrhaging Hospitals III.
“No reform, that's my motto” - a few years ago, this was the prime minister's explanation for not touching healthcare. But in 2010 he made big promises to i...
“If you are new to this, I’ll see you through it all the way” – The internet is full of ads in Hungarian recruiting sex workers, but authorities see no problem with them
Although encouraging prostitution is a criminal offence In Hungary, the authorities say there is nothing wrong with openly advertising foreign sex work to Hunga...
The Ministry of Interior says there is no problem with hospital-acquired infections. However, a leaked document says they know the situation is serious
According to an internal document of the Ministry of Interior leaked to Direkt36, health care authorities are aware of the gravity of problems caused by hospita...
In England, the cleaner is the most important person in the hospital. How did other countries manage to decrease hospital-acquired infections?
While the spread of dangerous hospital-acquired infections is a growing problem in Hungary every year, it is being successfully managed elsewhere. In England, t...
“We just spread the bacteria all over the hospital” – Why is the prevalence of dangerous hospital-acquired infections growing in Hungary?
A 35-year-old mother has contracted a serious hospital infection because she was left for hours without changing a contaminated diaper that was put on her after...
Until now, it was a secret how Hungarian hospitals were dealing with infections. Direkt36 has created and now publishes their ranking.
For the first time, we publish a ranking of how Hungarian hospitals compare to each other based on the handling of hospital-acquired infections. One of the most...
Thousands of hospital patients are dying from terrible infections. Instead of addressing the situation, the government is working to cover it up
Year after year, hospitals report an increasing amount of serious and even fatal hospital-acquired infections, but the reality is even worse than what the offic...
The owners of private equity funds, which hide huge wealth, have been removed from the state register, after Direkt36 published an article about them
Earlier this year Direkt36 was able to confirm the identity of the ultimate beneficial owners of dozens of private equity funds from a database managed by NAV, ...
Bracing for US sanctions, Russian financier in Budapest was busy securing personal offshore assets, leaked documents reveal
Until last autumn, Nikolay Kosov headed the International Investment Bank, which is leaving Hungary. According to documents obtained by Direkt36, the Russian ba...
“We need to pressure” the Hungarians – Leaked documents reveal collapse of Russian-led bank in Budapest
Internal documents obtained by Direkt36 reveal that the Hungarian government has become one of the strongest backers of the Russian-dominated International Inve...