{"id":2397,"date":"2025-01-15T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:35:56","slug":"lekarski-asistenti-bta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/en\/lekarski-asistenti-bta\/","title":{"rendered":"BTA: Healthcare professionals, assistant pharmacists and medical assistants want regulation of their professions and measures for the personnel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The managements of the Bulgarian Association of Health Care Professionals (BAPHG), the Bulgarian Association of Assistant Pharmacists (BAPF) and the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics (BULAF) insisted at the National Press Club of BTA on the regulation of their professions, as well as on urgent measures to solve the problems with the personnel crisis. With these unifying ideas, the three organizations signed an agreement uniting in defense of the professions they represent and express readiness for joint action against isolation, inequality in contacts with institutions and against the long-standing lack of adequate and workable solutions in healthcare to solve the personnel crisis, said Lilyana Petrova, Chairman of BAPF.<\/p>\n

The number of health care professionals is 35 thousand, said Milka Vasileva, Chairman of the BAPZGB. According to her, 22,820 of them are nurses and in the next few years a third of the current workers will be of retirement age. Bulgarian healthcare is collapsing, and nurses, midwives and rehabilitators are rescuing the system by working in several places, she added. The professional organization has prepared the normative documents related to the regulation of the profession of health care professionals. At the moment, the rules, in her words, are not clear, and therefore with the two organizations we will fight not a fight, but a war for the regulation of our professions, for their protection, for clear rules, for the opportunity to work in the best possible way, Vassileva added. Young people are not motivated to train as nurses, as in many medical institutions the starting salary indicated in the Collective Agreement has not been reached. According to her, about 65% of graduate nurses do not remain in the healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Our main problems are related to the lack of constructive dialogue with the institutions and audibility for our problems, making decisions for us without our hearing, lack of a clear formula for postgraduate training, the destruction of the professional authority of our profession, said Petrova. In such an environment, there can be no expectation that there will be people willing to practice these professions. In the words and solutions to the alarming trend of the personnel crisis are late. There is a legislative vacuum related to the role of professions in healthcare, Petrova said.<\/p>\n

The medical assistants are the heirs of the paramedics, recalled Alexander Alexandrov - Chairman of the Bulgarian Medical Association, pointed out that together with the other two professional organizations they will defend the rights of the medical assistants and the paramedics. In the face of medical assistants, the state has hidden potential for a better future of the health system, he said, pointing out that medical assistants would have a serious place in schools.<\/p>\n

The organizations will send an open letter today to the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the National Assembly, in which they demand a meeting with them.<\/p>\n

You can see the news in BTA and a video report from the press conference via the button below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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