Interview with Nikolay Hadjidonchev, Chairman of the Bulgarian Generic Pharmaceutical Association “BGPharmA” For two years you are fighting to get a precise breakdown of costs for medicines by the health insurance fund, more precisely this is normal request for transparency. Have the NHIF or the Health Ministry shown will during this period? There should be […]
The devices that can unravel DNA strands are overpowering, quite large and certainly not mobile. Developers from Oxford created MinION. This is a portable DNA reader that fits in a person’s hand. Using the USB it can be connected to any computer and read the sequence of the DNA strands of the material placed in […]
The situation with the private Cardiology Hospital in Vidin should be recorded in textbooks as an example of how power is misused without punishment – Dr. Katzarov how is power (mis)used without punishment in the structure of healthcare? You specify the situation with the private Cardiology Hospital in Vidin as an example in this respect. […]
Three hospitals refused to admit for treatment a 47 year-old woman from Kazanlak with acute myocardial infarction. After a whole day of wandering between health facilities Dafinka Boneva was hospitalized at the University Hospital “St. George” in Plovdiv, where doctors saved her life. The treatment, however, will be paid by the Plovdiv health facility that […]
After a 10-month delay the state prosecution paid BGN 100 000 compensation to the three doctors charged in the death of 5-month-old Maria in Pazardzhik hospital seven years ago. Then the child died of sepsis after a 5-day stay, and the doctors, who at different times were on duty at the clinic, were accused for […]