OPINION POLL ABOUT HOSPITALS

Patients and relatives can score hospitals on Internet.

Hospitals can be qualified by votes on an Internet website scoring hospitals according to the quality of medical care and that of catering to elect ’the hospital of the year’. More than 12 000 votes have been registered so far on the portal www.hazipatika.com . Experts claim it is almost impossible to rank hospitals by personal impressions. Even the statistics might be misleading because the hospitals with greater mortality simply can be those where more complicated cases are treated, health officials claim.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó