The Mikó Imre Legal Protection Service became aware of a shocking incident involving a Hungarian family in Cluj-Napoca. On February 2, 2025, the member of a Hungarian family dialled the emergency number 112 after her mother’s friend became ill. The 68-year-old man showed symptoms of a stroke, so an ambulance was called.
According to the person who initiated the emergency call (Sz.Cs.), the doctor instructed her in a rather irritated tone to stop using Hungarian when she was trying to calm the elderly man on his mother tongue. Later, the doctor also demanded Romanian-language communication when the daughter explained the situation to her hard-of-hearing mother in her native language.