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Just over a month after resigning as director of the Sofia Regional Sanitary Inspectorate, Dancho Penchev again headed the inspection. This is clear from a brief statement from the Ministry of Health to the media, in which it is stated that the current incumbent Ilonka Maeva has resigned.
Penchev surprisingly resigned at the end of October, without citing the reasons for his decision, but it later became clear in a speech by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov that the reason for this was the quarantine revoked after a negative test by President Rumen Radev, who was in contact with an infected person. .
The inspection was led by Ilonka Maeva, who was Penchev’s deputy. Ten days after his resignation, he again assumed leadership positions at the capital’s RHI, after it became clear that Maeva had a positive test for coronavirus and was quarantined. Due to a lack of sufficient personnel, the government proposed that Penchev be appointed deputy director and lead the inspection while Maeva was absent.
The Ministry of Health clarifies that he asked to leave office because he has reached retirement age. Thus, the leadership of SRZI passes back into the hands of Dancho Penchev.
The situation with Penchev’s resignation began with the quarantine and early termination of the same for the president and the prime minister, after it was established that they had been in contact with an infected person. By order of the Minister of Health, any person in contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 is subject to a 10-day quarantine, starting from the last contact with the confirmed case. A condition that both Radev and Borisov met. However, their quarantine was prematurely terminated by RHI, as Penchev told Dnevnik that Rumen Radev’s decision was his. The day after Borissov’s quarantine was lifted, it turned out that he was infected with a coronavirus and potentially infected other people by the time he ended up alone.
The situation also sparked another confrontation between the president and the prime minister. Borissov announced that Penchev left office due to Radev’s quarantine. He then warned all the ministers, some of whom were quarantined, such as Borissov himself after being infected with the coronavirus, to follow all the rules, “because they are watching you, and we are not anointed as president, where our services only give it a day. ” they quarantine him as if he were an alien. “He even accused the head of state of being untouchable and suggested that a pre-trial process be initiated against him, as would be the procedure for any Bulgarian citizen who does not comply with the quarantine. However , such a thing did not happen.
