Disability scam trial opens
Eleven doctors, nine nurses and fifty patients went on trial at Borsod County Court on Wednesday in what is known as the disability case. The doctors are charged with accepting cash for helping to certify their patients as disabled, so that they could qualify for monthly disability payments. The patients allegedly paid tens of thousands of forints for the service.
The story was revealed by a nurse who was fired from a Miskolc hospital and then told the media how to obtain an entitlement to disability funds. About 800 people were questioned in the two-year investigation.
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