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Bulgaria's doctors union decided on September 17 to hold a number of protest rallies nationwide, culminating in a big protest on October 15 in Sofia, to protest against what they see as insufficient funding for the health care sector, having rejected another financing proposal put forth by the Finance Ministry.
The ministry's proposal, tabled a new proposal to appease the growing anger of the country's hospitals, envisioned monthly subsidies to hospitals of 80 million leva until the end of the year, while 125 million leva owed from this year's allocation would be made available in the first quarter of 2011, private Bulgarian television channel bTV reported.
The proposal was presented by Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov during an extraordinary congress of the doctors' union on September 17
The chronic financial crisis from which the Bulgaria hospitals are suffering means that dozens of institutions across the country have ceased planned operations and have substantially reduced treatment capacity even in emergency cases.
In fact, when Goranov appeared at the emergency hearing, he was met by a violent verbal abuse from the medics, abuse which eventually forced him to leave.
Unhappy with the ministry's continued insistence on deferred payment of this year's full allocation, the union said that must be made available immediately or hospitals would not be able to cope, since they were already in debt to their respective suppliers.
Union head Dr Tsvetan Raichinov claimed that 455 million leva were missing from the coffers of the National Health Insurance Fund, to which all employed and self-employed Bulgarians are contributing eight per cent of their monthly income.
It was also revealed of cases in certain hospitals where medical staff had not received salaries as much as for four months, or hospitals which had run out of essential supplies.
The economic recession has hit hard Bulgaria's open economy, which has resulted in a large drop in Budget revenue. The union claims that the Cabinet has redirected some of the health care insurance funding to other areas, leaving hospitals and doctors under-financed.
The ministry's proposal, tabled a new proposal to appease the growing anger of the country's hospitals, envisioned monthly subsidies to hospitals of 80 million leva until the end of the year, while 125 million leva owed from this year's allocation would be made available in the first quarter of 2011, private Bulgarian television channel bTV reported.
The proposal was presented by Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov during an extraordinary congress of the doctors' union on September 17
The chronic financial crisis from which the Bulgaria hospitals are suffering means that dozens of institutions across the country have ceased planned operations and have substantially reduced treatment capacity even in emergency cases.
In fact, when Goranov appeared at the emergency hearing, he was met by a violent verbal abuse from the medics, abuse which eventually forced him to leave.
Unhappy with the ministry's continued insistence on deferred payment of this year's full allocation, the union said that must be made available immediately or hospitals would not be able to cope, since they were already in debt to their respective suppliers.
Union head Dr Tsvetan Raichinov claimed that 455 million leva were missing from the coffers of the National Health Insurance Fund, to which all employed and self-employed Bulgarians are contributing eight per cent of their monthly income.
It was also revealed of cases in certain hospitals where medical staff had not received salaries as much as for four months, or hospitals which had run out of essential supplies.
The economic recession has hit hard Bulgaria's open economy, which has resulted in a large drop in Budget revenue. The union claims that the Cabinet has redirected some of the health care insurance funding to other areas, leaving hospitals and doctors under-financed.
Sin dal febbraio scorso m'impegnai personalmente nella diffusione di dati e ricerche commissionati dalla nostra società, riguardanti la profonda crisi strutturale del Sistema Sanitario bulgaro.
RispondiEliminaOttenute le rispondenze numeriche abbiamo voluto interessare i nostri clienti (finanziatori e costruttori) ed i nostri potenziali clienti sulle opportunità riguardanti la progettazione e successiva realizzazione di strutture medico - assistenziali private, di cui la Bulgaria é fortemente carente.
Ad oggi, con lo sciopero dei medici in pieno svolgimento ed i 42 mila casi accertati di malasanità sul territorio nazionale, le risposte sono ancora ampiamente insoddisfacenti, quasi vi fosse una ritrosia di fondo (del tutto ingiustificata) che porta avveduti finanziatori ed esperti costruttori a guardare ad altre forme d'investimento. Meno redditizio, ma più immediato.
In realtà convenzionare un struttura ospedaliera con il Servizio Sanitario Nazionale é tutt'altro che aleatorio. Infatti: se da una parte la nuova struttura agirebbe come soggetto privato; dall'altra potrebbe richiedere il rimborso delle prestazioni mutuabili, esattamente come si é soliti fare in Italia o in altri Paese dell'Europa Occidentale.
Se, poi, sommiamo alle strutture prettamente medico - assistenziali, le case di riposo per anziani e gli asili, il business incentrato su questo particolare e specifico settore d'investimento sarebbe oltremodo vantaggioso e molto meno dispendioso di quanto si potrebbe essere portati a credere.
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Questo atteggiamento, tanto tiepido, verso questa forma d'investimento é, a tutt'oggi, ingiustificato dalla realtà dei fatti.
Grazie.