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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common infectious disease of the lungs that occurs with significant morbidity and mortality. In Europe and America about 4 million cases of CAP lead to 1 million hospitalizations annually. Incidence of pneumonia is variable and depends on patient’s age, increasing in the age group over 60 years. All modern studies […]

The elderly people in our country are satisfied with the General Practitioners and pharmacists, because they in details and clearly explain them the diseases and drug therapies and are considerate and kind to them. This shows a study of the problems of the elderly in Bulgaria conducted by the newly created think-tank “Solidarity with elders”. […]

Vyara Vragova of the patient organization “Type 2 diabetes” said that the General Practitioners neglect the problem of type 2 diabetes. According to her the General Practitioners “do not pay much attention” to the possible diabetic symptoms. “It is no secret that the medical check-ups do not actually take place”, she said. Vragova indicated also […]

The National Health Insurance Fund announced that on the last day of September National it received the funds for this July needed to pay the difference in user fee for pensioners to general practitioners and dentists. From the beginning of this year the pensioners pay user fee BGN 1.00 for examination instead of  BGN 2.90. […]

The employers and the trade unions supported the revised budget of the NHIF proposed by the interim government. The social partners, however, strongly objected against the situation in health care, stressing that health costs have doubled in the last five years but the quality of service remains the same. The revision provides for the Health […]