Stipi Students in the Hungarian diaspora programme

Almost half of a thousand people were present on the screening program which was organised for the sixth time now in Transcarpathia. Thanks to the six programs all together, 3 000 inhabitant had been examined, which is more than 2% of Kárpátalja’s Hungarian population.

The Hungarian diaspora programme of The National Union of Students in Hungary (HÖOK) started the screening in 2016. The aim was that Hungarian students can bring their knowledge to those places where that means enormous help for people living there.

Semmelweis University, which celebrates its 250th jubilee, at this time brought a medical team containing fast 70 people, in order of doing the examinations in the six villages of the region of Nagyszőlős. Students had made the screenings under supervision of six medical doctors and two pharmacists. Among these were general examination of patients,  defining their blood-sugar- and cholesterol-level. They measured people’s blood pressure as well as recording ECG or examining urine-parameters.

Contributing with HÖOK’s Stipendium Hungaricum Mentor Network, about the half of the team was chosen from Semmelweis University’s international students who had worked in pairs with their Hungarian colleagues. This means, beyond its caritative aspect, the screening program also has played a role in building relationships between Hungarian and foreign students, but also people coming from Hungary and Kárpátalja.