Medical assistants and paramedics support all attempts to ensure a decent remuneration of medical specialists, the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics announced. The organization maintains close contact with trade unions and professional organizations of health professionals on all matters affecting the profession.

The Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics is not a trade union and does not have the power to negotiate pay and working conditions, but has always supported and will support trade unions and other structures that insist on decent wages and better working conditions for both medical assistants and paramedics and other medical specialists.

A comprehensive reform of the health care system is the only way to effectively and permanently solve the problems in the sector. In this direction are the efforts of the organization to prepare a unified Strategy for the development of medical professions as a tool for achieving regulation and the desired change, added the Union.

Full support for the protests of the young medics and the Syndicate of the Bulgarian Medical Association expressed in their position from the organization and called on their regional structures to participate in the protests.

In a protest a few days ago, young doctors and specialists insisted on raising their salaries, improving working conditions and transparency in specialization competitions. Support for the protest was expressed by the Podkrepa medical federation, the Syndicate of Bulgarian Medical Specialists, etc. The Ministry of Health also expressed support for the graduates, but pointed out that the wage-setting mechanisms are not directly under the control of the Ministry. The Bulgarian Medical Association announced yesterday that the Ministry of Health could increase direct subsidies for residents.

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