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In Dobrich it is more difficult to find a specialist, and it is easier in Pleven.
Annalsfrom the Institute of Market Economy: there are only 210 specialists in infectious diseases in the country, 28 are in the capital and there is only one
Bulgarians are forced to be health tourists because in some areas access to specialist doctors is extremely difficult. It’s a great challenge
attract doctors
with prestigious specialties
outside the main hospitals
in large municipalities, creating prerequisites and the need for health tourism.
This is stated in an analysis by the Institute of Market Economics.
The most difficult is access to specialists for people in Dobrich, Kardzhali and Yambol according to the IME index, which is based on the territorial distribution data of 17 groups of specialist doctors at the end of 2019. They are related as the number of doctors in the specific specialty per capita. The rating represents the distance from the area with the greatest access to doctors in the specific specialty.
Access to specialists in Pleven it’s the easiest. This is largely explained by the large medical university in the center of the district, the institute’s experts explain. Secondly Sofia, because there are many specialized medical institutions, but the number of inhabitants of the capital is greater. Access to specialists in Plovdiv and Varna, and Sofia region it also enters the top five.
Most people go to cardiologists. The reason is that
by nearly 1,800 cardiologists
more than 400 are in Sofia,
while in the whole area
Targovishte has only 9
Second in terms of difficult access are classified obstetricians and gynecologists. A top 3 is complemented with psychiatrists. They follow specialists in internal medicine and ophthalmologists. Access is also difficult pediatricians.
“One possible explanation for the differences in the specialties, of course, is the different workload of individual specialists, although this remains the realm of speculation given the lack of available data,” the analysis said.
In individual specialties, the smallest regional differences in access are found in infectious disease. “The reason for this, however, is mainly their small number: a total of 210 in the whole country, and even in the capital there are only 28, and in the entire Vidin region there is only one.”
Access to skin and venereal diseases in pulmonology and physiology is relatively easy.
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