The coronavirus in Bulgaria: doctors in dispute over the suspension of planned operations – Bulgaria

The medical community was divided in its opinion on the decision taken over the weekend in the areas with the most coronavirus infections to stop the entry and planned operations. According to the order of the Minister of Health, the restriction applies to areas with a morbidity of more than 120 people per 100,000 inhabitants. Currently in Bulgaria there are six: Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Gabrovo, Sliven, Targovishte and Shumen.

In an interview with Nova TV this morning, the head of the Bulgarian Medical Union, Ivan Madkharov, announced that

there is no reason for a ban

of receptions and planned operations. “Antigen tests are already provided in addition to PCR tests, and each hospital has the opportunity to provide preliminary diagnoses so as not to endanger patients,” Madkharov argued. He asked that such restrictions not be maintained because they are harmful to patients and question the survival of hospitals.

I have personally ordered the scheduled reception to stop on October 23 (Friday), because in the last two weeks we have been observing

diffuse spread infection in planned patients,

Minutes later on Nova TV the director of the Pirogov Emergency Hospital, Asen Baltov, said. He clarified that there are more and more planned patients in a latent state: when the tests do not “detect” the infection and after they are accepted for treatment, nosocomial outbreaks occur. In “Pirogov” the purulent-septic surgery clinic broke out first, at the moment we have a problem in traumatology, said Baltov.