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Hungary is the only member state in the European Union where the drug is still prescribed, the department of obstetrics and gynecology has now put the issue to a vote. However, they do not make the decision.

The obstetrics and gynecology department of the Health Professional College supports the abolition of the prescription requirement for the emergency contraceptive pill – hvg.hu learned from professional sources.

We understand that the question was put to a vote within the department, which has been under new management since last year, and the result was that they would support the fact that the medicine could be dispensed without a prescription in Hungary as well.

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However, this opinion is not binding, decisions like this are made by the government, including the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for health. We sent questions about the matter to the professional department, if they answer, we will update our article.

Since the Polish government decided to abolish the prescription requirement for emergency contraceptives, Hungary has remained the only country in the EU where the pill is still subject to a prescription. The Patent Association recently launched a petition to change this.

As we wrote earlier, in Hungary in 2011, after a one-and-a-half-year authorization process that started in 2009, the National Institute of Pharmaceuticals (OGYI) authorized the non-prescription marketing of an emergency contraceptive product, but after Fidesz came to power in 2010, the OGYI merged with the Pharmaceutical and Health Quality and Organizational Development Institute (GYEMSZI), whose director-general ordered a review of the case as soon as it entered the news. In the end, GYEMSZI officially modified the marketing authorization for the specific drug so that it can only be obtained by prescription.

In 2015, contrary to the EU recommendation, the Ministry of Human Resources also insisted that none of the types of emergency contraceptives could be obtained without a prescription.

This was justified by patient safety risks, despite the fact that, according to the WHO’s position, the use of the pill after the event is a safe method, moreover, the UN’s specialized committee, CEDAW, had already advocated two years earlier, in 2013, that the Hungarian state abolish the prescription requirement for emergency contraception.

In the current system, by default, the prescription is written at the gynecology clinic or at the family doctor’s place of residence, but it may easily happen that this is not immediately possible, and many women are in a humiliating situation, and only get access to the medicine that is easily available at the pharmacy in other EU countries. you can get to it.

It is important to emphasize that the pill after the event is not an abortion pill. Emergency contraceptive pills can only prevent pregnancy, they are not suitable for termination. Pregnancy occurs when the egg and sperm meet. As Júlia Benkovics, gynecologist, put it in our previous article:

The post-event birth control pill blocks the LH surge in the brain that triggers ovulation, meaning it prevents the egg from going on that date in the first place.

The regularly taken hormonal birth control pill also works on the same principle, only it inhibits ovulation by administering a smaller amount of progestin (i.e. synthetic corpus luteum hormone).