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People with cancer, mental health and chronic skin diseases will be receiving all necessary therapies, diagnostics, medicines and procedures in one place – a large hospital in the area. The Health Ministry will be closing the dispensaries for the respective diseases and they will merge with general hospitals, confirmed the Health Minister Dr. Petar Moskov […]

Hospitals will receive nearly BGN 15.2 million more by the end of the year, informed reporters the member of the Supervisory Board of the NHIF Dr. Vanyo Sharkov last Wednesday. He explained that the Supervisory Board at a meeting has made a decision the university hospitals budgets to be increased by 2%, while the budgets […]

The Health Minister takes on the medicine procurement in hospitals, announced the Council of Ministers in its Draft Decree. It was published on the website of the Ministry of Health for public comment. In his new activity, the Minister will be assisted by a new unit in the Department, which will be created for the […]

People between 18 and 49 years of age with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) have increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes or ischemic heart disease (IHD) according to the results of a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The authors used a database of patients from 1967 to 2003 and […]

Ireland, the United Kingdom and Albania are the first three countries in Europe in child obesity. Bulgaria is fifth, according to a study published at a Congress on the problem in Prague. The study has been conducted with the participation of the World Health Organization (WHO) based on data for children aged up to 5 […]