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General practitioners will have the right to issue referrals for PCR testing to citizens on their patient lists, suspected of COVID-19. This will be done according to strict criteria prepared by the Bulgarian Medical Union, the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance Fund and the National Association of General Practitioners of Bulgaria. For this to take effect, an annex to the National Framework Agreement will be signed, announced the Ministry of Health.
Until the signature of the annex, in outpatient care, references will continue to be issued for CRP examination by specialists in infectious diseases, pulmonology, pediatrics and ENT diseases.
The new thing is that they will have the right to issue a number of referrals greater than the current one. They will retain the right to request research even after changes in R&D.
In parallel, the organization of general practitioners will prepare an algorithm for the patient’s path to the GP during the autumn-winter season.
The document will be approved and distributed to all interested parties after its coordination with the Ministry of Health.
This was decided in a meeting between the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov and representatives of the BMA – in the person of Dr. Ivan Madjarov and Dr. Nikolay Branzelov, NHIF – with a representative the manager Prof. Petko Salchev, city RHI-Sofia, from Sofia medical institutions and members of the National Operational Headquarters.
During the meeting, the provision of hospital beds for patients with COVID-19, current data on the spread of the coronavirus infection in the country, as well as current anti-epidemic measures were also discussed.
