A new method of treating prostate cancer is to be applied in the case of two patients at Queen Giovanna Hospital (ISUL) in Sofia on 10 December. By inserting grains of iodine 125 isotope, the tumour in the gland is irradiated internally in..
The General Directorate Combating Organized Crime has stopped a network for issuing fraudulent medical disability certificates in Sofia. Seven people were detained, three of them doctors. The medics chaired commissions and the..
In “Bulgaria Today” on Monday, July 26we bring you first the latest news stories from this country. Next on the show, we look into the problem of the shortage of doctors and nurses in Bulgaria and the difficulties children with disabilities are..
For yet another day, doctors and nurses from the Pirogov Hospital for Emergency Medicine protested in front of the hospital’s building. They call for the resignation of caretaker Minister of Health Dr. Stoycho Katsaraov and for the return of dismissed..
Only physicians, who are employed on a full-time schedule of 12 hours and are engaged in diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19, will receive additional money to their salaries, Deputy Minister of Health Aleksandar Zlatanov said. According to him,..
Every morning, whether it is a working day or a day off, patients keep lining up in front of the office of Assoc. Prof. Petar Atanasov in the clinic of internal medicine of the University Multi-profile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency..
On International Labour Day, May 1, we often talk about workers and their rights. Decent remuneration and well-deserved rest are an integral part of the principles of freedom and democracy, according to the rule of law. For more than a year,..
“The coronavirus has painfully revealed the shortcomings of the system – inequality of access to medical services and imbalances in the distribution of human and financial resources,” President Rumen Radev stated in his speech to the medical..
"I am sure that the new government will continue to support health workers in the same way as before," Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wrote on his Facebook page on the occasion of the professional holiday of medics in Bulgaria. "They..
"The coronavirus is definitely ahead of the vaccination process and it is what immunizes the Bulgarian population," general practitioner Dr. Valentin Yanev has told BNR. He pointed out that the vaccination process was seriously lagging..
