The copayment by patients for healthcare in Bulgaria is three times higher than in the EU. This is shown by data from a draft National Health Strategy 2021-2030, published for public discussion, BNT reported. According to the data in 2019,..
Nearly 48% of first-line employees in hospitals have shown interest in receiving a vaccine against Covid-19 . This was announced by the Minister of Health Kostadin Angelov at a meeting of the parliamentary committee on health. Minister Angelov..
Bulgarian trade unions in the healthcare sector have submitted a draft Collective Labour Agreement to the Ministry of Health, insisting on a permanent increase in the salaries of healthcare professionals between 40 and 60 %. The unions propose..
Today, a protest with stretched hospital beds was held in front of the Council of Ministers in downtown Sofia . It was initiated by the organizers of the anti-government protests in Bulgaria which lasted for four months from the so-called Poison Trio...
The members of the Department of Medical Sciences at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which includes some of the most prominent specialists in Bulgaria in the field of medicine and healthcare, have called on Bulgarian citizens not to underestimate the..
A National Logistics Center will start operating in Bulgaria next week, with the task of improving communication between the various healthcare units and improving the medical care for patients with a coronavirus infection. This was announced by the..
In the new 2021 budget another 230 million euros are earmarked for healthcare , Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said in Gabrovo. He added it was important for the number of people infected with Covid-19 not to rise and called on mayors to continue..
“The increase in money is more of an election campaign measure, than it is an anti-crisis measure,” said healthcare economics consultant Arkadi Sharkov for the BNR, commenting on the additional funding for healthcare – more than 250 million leva..
The European Commission has announced that it has approved two measures proposed by Bulgaria to help employment in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. The approval is done under the temporarily eased state aid rules. The first measure extends and..
Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev and US Ambassador to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa signed a letter of intent for cooperation in healthcare between the governments of Bulgaria and of the USA. To this moment there has been no such document on bilateral..
