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All of Bulgaria is already a red zone for COVID-19. We are in a serious phase of the epidemic. The two-week morbidity is more than 300 per 100,000 inhabitants, so new measures are being taken, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced tonight in an extraordinary briefing.
80 million BGN is earmarked by the end of the year for the reorganization of our healthcare system before the end of the year. Of these, 5 million BGN will be allocated each month to general practitioners. Each general practitioner will receive an additional 1,000 BGN per month.
“We understand the efforts of our colleagues, general practitioners, who are getting bigger and bigger and the pressure on them increases with each passing day. According to the latest data, every third of the Bulgarian citizens tested is positive,” Angelov commented.
Additional COVID zones will be opened in diagnostic and consultation centers in Sofia and larger cities, where the pressure on the hospital system is extremely high. There will be a doctor, a nurse, a laboratory assistant and they will perform a clinical examination, a COVID test and laboratory blood tests. At the discretion of the physician and imaging of the lungs.
Approximately 3 million BGN will go to this second address each month.
The team that will work there will receive an additional 1,000 BGN per person and an additional 10 BGN for a patient who has passed through the COVID zone, and these 10 BGN will be distributed by the DCC manager among the employees who participated in the process. the care of the patient who passed through this center, explained Minister Angelov.
“In medical establishments we will increase the capacity from 10% to 20% to maintain the availability of beds in all hospitals. In those hospitals, which we determine in order and that maintain a capacity of no less than 50% of our beds, we will assign an additional 50. In addition, BGN 15 million will be used to strengthen the capacity of these structures. Antigen tests will be purchased to evaluate patients who need it and show a clinical picture with probability of COVID disease, “said the minister. Health care.
