At the suggestion of the Minister responsible for health, dr. Prime Minister Péter Magyar appointed Árpád Tótth as the national hospital director-general, i.e. the head of the National Hospital General Directorate (Okfő), according to the report published on Tuesday evening in the Hungarian Gazettein which, among other things, the provision on the abolition of the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty, as well as the decision to limit the salary and reimbursement of mayors and assembly presidents, was published, and in the same document, the decree on the appointment of persons exercising all of the state’s ownership rights and obligations over individual state-owned economic companies was also published.
Dr. Árpád Tótth will assume his post as national hospital director-general with effect from July 1, 2026. Zsolt Hegedűs, Minister responsible for health care, in the Parliament at the beginning of May spokehe already knows who he will ask for this task, but he has not named the future director general.
About Dr. Árpád Tótth, Veol.hu previously wrote that he worked as an emergency physician for more than a decade, as well as the medical director of the hospital in Veszprém and the general director of the hospital in Zirc, and then he was a consultant and analyst of the Norwegian healthcare system for several years – previously wrote about him Medicalonline.hu.
The predecessor of the appointed director general, dr. On May 7, János Révész announced that he resigned from his position, and that his employment as director general at the National Hospital General Directorate will end at the end of June 2026. He justified his decision by saying that, in the current legal environment, the national hospital director-general is appointed by the prime minister on the recommendation of the minister responsible for the sector, and after May 9, both the minister and the prime minister will change, so he thought it would be ethical and supportive if I allowed the new management of the sector to entrust the most suitable manager with the task as soon as possible.
“In the current government cycle, after sixteen years, the health sector will again be represented at the ministerial level. This is a long-awaited, historic opportunity not only for citizens and patients, but also for all (health and non-health) employees of the health sector. The issue of patient care is receiving strong political support, and the environment of opportunities is expanding. This new framework – I hope – can act in the direction of real structural reforms and development,” wrote the outgoing director general at the time, who He performed his duties from 2024.
