Robin Ézsi, the director general of the Gyula Nyírő National Institute of Psychiatry and Addiction (Nyírő OPAI), submitted his resignation on Friday. his mandate ends on March 14.
According to the announcement published by the General Directorate of the National Hospital (Okfő), the medical director of the institution, appointed in September last year, will temporarily perform his duties. Andrea Sárosi will take over.
The health administration is calling for applications for the position of director general.
The announcement did not reveal the reason for Ézsi’s resignation, nor whether the full-scale external investigation into the institution’s professional operations, which was ordered by the Attorney General and the Interior Ministry on February 24, had been concluded.
History of the case
A significant number of Budapest psychiatrists have announced that they will terminate their voluntary overtime work from the spring of 2026, which, according to the Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK), could endanger the functioning of psychiatric emergency care in the capital.
According to the opinion of the chamber, because of this
the current form of psychiatric on-call care in Budapest becomes unsustainable.
It became clear from the opinions of the specialist doctors sent to the chamber: if the existing problems cannot be settled satisfactorily, the about two-thirds of psychiatrists working on call are ready to quit.
The direct antecedent of the protest is that it became public: since Robin Ézsi was appointed as director general, 15 psychiatrists have left OPAI. Due to the drastic reduction in the number of specialists, the National Hospital General Directorate (OKFŐ) was forced to transfer doctors from other institutions to the institute.
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