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Elderly and chronically ill persons not to be mandatorily hospitalized

published on 5/20/20 10:28 AM

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In case of an established Covid-19 infection, senior citizens above 60 years of age and chronically ill people will not be necessarily treated in a hospital, Bulgaria's Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev announced. He issued an amendment to an earlier order stipulating a mandatory hospital treatment for these social groups after lawyers appealed with the Supreme Administrative Court to overturn the ministerial order.

The group of lawyers fighting for human rights protection regard the forcible hospital treatment as a form of imprisonment that will be applied without a court order.

With the new order issued by the Health Minister, the hospital treatment in the case of a confirmed Covid-19 infection will now be at the recommendation of the person's GP if they believe that the disease is in a severe form. Refusal of hospitalization will be stated explicitly in writing.

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