PUBLIC HEALTH
Health and social matters in the settlement
We can only speak of organised conditions in both matters since the 18th Century.
The first information regarding social matters is that György Hrabovszky local lutheran minister organised an orphanage for abandoned children.
Reliable historic data in the field of health are only available from the second half of the 19th Century. In 1886 Dr. Pál Rutsek arrived in Várpalota as a doctor and cared for poor patients free of charge. Renovation and modernisation of the hospice is related to his name. The hospice partly operated as an institution for healing and partly as a poor-house. Medical treatment of inhabitants was the duty of district doctors or in more serious cases the hospital in Székesfehérvár, Veszprém, or possibly Zirc. There are local recollections of physicians like Dr. Pál Zwickli, Dr. László Lőte, and Dr. András Szabó. Births were exclusively at home and it was the task of the midwife to conduct a delivery. In the period before and after the second world war the Farkas pharmacy served the settlement and its environs.
Industrialisation of the 1950s and the rapid increase in inhabitants made it necessary to have local specialists and to organise a hospital. The first hospital started working in one of the coal-mine's hostels. It was enlarged several times, the last being in 1981. The town built a new building for out-patents, this is the Clinic ever since and serves our-patents significantly renewed and modernised since it was privatised.
At the end of the 1980s leaders of the town decided to build a new hospital. It was opened in June 1991.
In the meantime the structure of public health completely changed which was not favourable for the hospital. Organisation of family practice on a privatised basis, privatised dental care and privatised specialists placed the hospital before new kinds of tasks that could only be met with great difficulty under the present conditions of financing.
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