{"id":2393,"date":"2025-01-15T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:37:48","slug":"lekarski-asistenti-bnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/en\/lekarski-asistenti-bnt\/","title":{"rendered":"BNT: Personnel crisis \u2013 shortages of nurses, medical assistants and paramedics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Half of the hospitals in the country should be closed if health care standards related to the necessary personnel are met.<\/p>\n

Because of this problem, three of the professional organizations issued an open letter to the executive branch.<\/p>\n

It calls for urgent measures to solve the personnel crisis, and in addition to nurses, there is a shortage of medical assistants. Currently, there are more than 2,000 people across the country, and only 150 graduates per year.<\/p>\n

Ivan Georgiev is one of the few remaining paramedics in the country. He works in the Emergency Service in Ruse, where the shortage of staff is increasing.<\/p>\n

\"We are not enough numbers, it is necessary to take emergency duty to cover the teams,\" said Ivan Georgiev, a medical paramedic in Emergency Services - Ruse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is also a lack of staff in hospitals. And the use of medical assistants has proven ineffective.<\/p>\n

\"If you are given a case, you may come across a situation where one nurse is alone on duty and one doctor of both wards, as well as one nurse of two wards, which is absurd,\" said Tatyana Atanasova, a nurse.<\/p>\n

\"A doctor anesthesiologist can serve five, six, ten rooms in which surgery is performed, with each patient being cared for by a doctor's assistant. That is, in this way they can be integrated into the Bulgarian healthcare system and not only that. They can also be integrated into the emergency departments of the hospital itself,\" added Alexander Alexandrov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Medical Association (BSLAF).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They can also be used more rationally in schools where medical staff are lacking. For four years now, Desislava has been confronted with the ordinance, which limits her skills as a medical assistant.<\/p>\n

\"A child with an allergy, with an acute allergic reaction, starting with urticaria, can literally lead to an emergency in five minutes, which ends fatally. I, sitting with the ampoule in my pocket, do not have the right to perform manipulation in my office, as I have been appointed as a medical specialist,\" said Desislava Tsenova, a doctor's assistant.<\/p>\n

Including as a principal, I've also experienced a death at school, so they happen. There are emergency situations. There needs to be adequate medical care, not just health care as it is now,\" said Danko Kalapish, director of the 107th Khan Krum Primary School.<\/p>\n

As the medical crisis deepens, one in three nurses is of retirement age and works in several places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"At the moment one doctor responds zero whole and ninety-five nurses. If this does not change, in the next three to five years about 10,000 nurses will drop out of the system, which means that there is no one to care for the patients,\" said Milka Vasileva, chairman of BAPZG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to alarming statistics, there are now nearly 22,000 nurses in Bulgaria compared to over 55,000 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

You can see the news and the report on BNT via the button below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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