Alexander Alexandrov

In 1986 he graduated from the Medical Training Institute ‘Dr. Varban Genchev’, Veliko Tarnovo, specialising in ‘Feldscher’, and in 2004 he obtained a degree in ‘Professional Bachelor’ from the Medical University of Sofia.

Since 1986, Alexander Alexandrov has been working as a paramedic. Nearly 40 years of professional experience has passed through almost all areas of healthcare in which paramedics work. He has practised in rapid and urgent medical care in the town of Tran, in paramedical health sections in the country, in the hospitals in the towns of Radomir and Bobov Dol, in the medical offices of the Struma-Pernik Plant and in the Zhitusha coal mine. He has practised the profession for 11 years in the Mining and Rescue Service of the Mines-Bobovdol. He was a paramedic in the school healthcare system, as well as in SBALLS and a medical center at the GDIN of the Ministry of Justice.

Throughout almost his entire professional career, Aleksandar Aleksandrov worked actively for the protection, promotion and later re-establishment of the profession of ‘Feldscher’ under the name ‘Medical Assistant’. He is an organizer and leader of protests of paramedics and medical assistants in defense of the profession and in the name of better healthcare in Bulgaria.

Since 1989, he has been a member of the Union of Medical Paramedics in Bulgaria and Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Union of Medical Paramedics in Pernik. Initiator, founder, co-founder and chairman of the Association of Medical Doctors, Bachelors of Medicine in Bulgaria (SMMBMB), registered in 2007. Alexander Alexandrov is among the founders of the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics, and in 2020 he was elected its chairman.

Initiator of a number of regulatory changes that led to the creation in 2011 of the profession of medical assistant (as a successor to the profession closed for training “Feldscher”) and the launch of university training for medical assistants in 2014, as well as to the separation and creation of an independent professional association of paramedics and medical assistants on 1 May 2024.

In 2024 he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics.