At the backdrop of shortage of medical staff in a number of cities in the country during the pandemic, medical students want to volunteer in Covid wards in hospitals. For just a week, 120 applications have been submitted. This was what the Association of..
In each regional city of Bulgaria there will be at least one hospital entirely for patients with coronavirus and one for patients without coronavirus. This was ordered by the Minister of Health to the regional governors, who must indicate the selected..
For the five regional centers most affected by the pandemic - Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Plovdiv, Burgas and Shumen , a plan has been created to increase hospital capacity , as well as to include medical trainees. This was what Minister of Health Kostadin..
The clinical pathway for Covid-19 is not sufficiently funded, Dr. Hristo Mazneykov, manager of the private hospital "St. Sofia", has told BNR. According to him, a patient costs about 700 euros, while allocated funds per patient are about 600 EUR. The..
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has demanded that coordination in hospitals should be provided so that every Covid-19 patient in need of hospital treatment could receive it. Borissov made this statement at a cabinet meeting earlier today...
Term of validity of ID documents extended by 6 months The term of validity of Bulgarian identity cards and passports, expiring in the period from 13 March 2020 to 31 January 2021, is extended by six months. This was decided by the parliament..
The number of people treated for Covid-19 in hospitals is increasing, but there is a lack of doctors to treat it. T he shortage is strongly felt in the smaller Bulgarian cities, where hospitals have applied for medical staff and volunteers, the BNR..
“Rapid antigen tests for coronavirus are to be performed at mobile testing stations in front of the big public hospitals. Such stations are expected to open by 6 November,” Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov told reporters, as quoted by BGNES...
“Requests from different hospitals for financial support keep coming at the Bulgarian Red Cross," Hristo Grigorov,” chairman of the Bulgarian Red Cross said in an interview for the BNR. “A commission makes an analysis and renders aid where..
The inspection ordered by Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov, which covers private and state medical institutions throughout the country, starts today. According to Minister Angelov, the hospitals that refuse to open beds for patients with..
