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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 […]

The Gerneral Practitioners can, without problems, report to the NHIF the Immunizations preformed in children despite the changes of the terms of their performance There are no problems for the General Practitioners to report via the information system of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) the immunizations, despite the change in the terms of the […]

Levofloxacin monotherapy is highly effective in community-acquired pneumonia Levofloxacin is one of the three respiratory fluoroquinolones that are recommended for empirical treatment of a wide range of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). It is a second generation fluoroquinolone and compared with the first generation products has improved efficacy against Gram-positive microorganisms (particularly S. pneumoniae, including […]