A team of the University Hospital Lozenets in Sofia headed by Dr, Igor Tudorache from the University Hospital in Hannover made the first lung transplantation in Bulgaria. A seventy-year-old man with extreme degree of pulmonary insufficiency is the recipient. Recently, Bulgaria’s Minister of Health assumed that such medical surgery can be possible within 12 to 18 months in Bulgaria. There are 7 hospitals in this country with license to make transplants. So far, a total of 485 kidney transplants, 149 liver and 58 heart transplants were done in this country.
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would lift its veto and that Bulgaria and Romania would probably become full members of Schengen from the..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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