The NHIF wants the Minister of Health not to work with hospitals that do not accept patients with Covid-19

The National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) not working with hospitals that do not accept coronavirus patients and refuse to open beds for COVID-19 – This will be proposed by the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov.

Announced his intention to change the law on his Facebook page. The reason is the refusal of the Fourth City Hospital of Sofia to admit a patient with coronavirus whose condition had worsened. The case was presented by BNT.

Meanwhile, it became clear on Saturday that a 33-year-old man with a coronavirus died on Friday after waiting hours for an ambulance in Sofia, bTV reported.

The man was in home treatment, but his condition is deteriorating. Her relatives called an ambulance around 6:30 pm They wait hours, but she does not come.

Then they call a private ambulance. From there they are told that they need to find a place in a hospital and they will transport the patient. Followed by a call from relatives in the hospitals. After they found a location around 10:10 p.m., the private ambulance arrived, but he was barely breathing.

The state ambulance arrived around 10:30 p.m. to determine the death of the young man.

The Sofia Emergency Service commented that unfortunately this has been going on for weeks.

“The last work shift has 418 calls, 200 of which are signs of coronavirus. After each direction, the ambulance is returned and disinfected in 50-60 minutes. It is absolutely impossible to drive,” said Katya Sungarska, spokeswoman for the Sofia Emergency Department. , in front of bTV.

According to her, the signal for this case was received at 6:41 p.m. and the ambulance arrived at the home at 10:23 p.m.

The Ministry of Health is launching an investigation into the case.

The number of new Covid-19 cases per day is constantly growing. For the last day there is again a record number of infected: 2891 cases.

Signs are also increasing for cases where patients do not get help on time. The reason is the shortage of medical personnel. During the last 24 hours, the new cases among doctors are 99.

At the same time, the number of people hospitalized is increasing, including those in intensive care units.

There are more and more infected among medical personnel, only for one day there are 99 new cases.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in Bulgaria, the number of doctors infected with coronavirus is 832 and the number of nurses, 748. A total of 2,268 medical personnel have been infected with Covod-19 since March, according to the Unified Information Portal.