{"id":2409,"date":"2025-01-15T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:38:16","slug":"lekarski-asistenti-bnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/en\/lekarski-asistenti-bnr\/","title":{"rendered":"BNR: Three Healthcare Professionals' Organizations Signed an Agreement on Common Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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65% from graduating nurses do not flow into the Bulgarian healthcare<\/p>\n

Professional organizations of health care professionals insist on a decent remuneration<\/p>\n

Three organizations of health care professionals signed an Agreement on common actions to protect their professional interests.<\/p>\n

An open letter with their requests will be sent today to the President of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister from the caretaker cabinet and the President.<\/p>\n

In it, they insist on working solutions to a deepening personnel crisis in healthcare.<\/p>\n

The main problems, according to Milka Vassileva, President of BAPZG, Lilyana Petrova, President of BAPF and Alexander Alexandrov, President of BASAF, are the lack of dialogue with the institutions and the audibility of their problems, decision-making for the \"development\" of their professions without hearing representatives of our professions, the lack of a clear and working formula for understanding postgraduate education, the lack of a comprehensive approach to solving the personnel crisis, including decent pay and preserving our professional authority, the worrying trend of lack of health and pharmaceutical care in the problem regions.<\/p>\n

35,000 are the health care professionals in Bulgaria - among them nurses, medical assistants, paramedics.<\/p>\n

Of the 55,000 nurses in 1992, there are now 22,820, with one in three nurses of retirement age. Each of them works in 2-3 jobs, if necessary, we will fight a war for our regulated professions, Milka Vasileva said during the discussion on \"Protection of professions and patient health\".<\/p>\n

At the meeting, they insisted on a unified standard of how many health care professionals should work in a Clinic or Department.<\/p>\n

65% of the graduating nurses do not merge into the Bulgarian healthcare - one part go to work abroad, another part work not in the specialty, but only a small part work on it, it became clear at the discussion.<\/p>\n

A huge problem is the impossibility of postgraduate training of these staff, which is why there is no interest from young people to train in these professions, explained Alexander Alexandrov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics. Only BGN 1500 is the salary of a doctor's assistant in the Pediatric Department in a large hospital, Aleksandrov gave as an example.<\/p>\n

According to him, for 7 years in our country 6 universities train medical assistants, and from there they graduate 20 people a year, who are actually the young people in this profession. These are the former paramedics in our country, which, however, has been closed before and there is a gap of 15 years in which such cadres have not been trained.<\/p>\n

Currently, we have a total of 2,000 medical assistants in the country, said Alexander Alexandrov.<\/p>\n

Aleksandrov also pointed out that, together with the other two professional organizations, they will defend the rights of medical assistants and paramedics. In the face of medical assistants, the state has hidden potential for a better future of the health system, and medical assistants would have a serious place in schools.<\/p>\n

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4000 are assistant pharmacists in our country, but for our problems there is also a lack of constructive dialogue with the institutions, pointed out Lilyana Petrova, President of the Bulgarian Association of Assistant Pharmacists. They insist on the possibility of consulting patients in the pharmacy when buying over-the-counter medications.<\/p>\n

Professional organizations of health care professionals insist on a decent remuneration based on mandatory Rules for the work of health care professionals, compliance with the National Code of Ethics and Rules of Good Medical Practice.<\/p>\n

For the time being, the Collective Agreement for 2025 in the healthcare sector has not been signed, and these specialists are missing at all in this CLA, it became clear at the discussion.<\/p>\n

Dissatisfaction with the situation is felt in our guilds, which leads not only to the departure of experienced and long-term staff, but also to a permanent reduction in the number of people willing to train and work in our professions. The legislative vacuum related to the role of our professions in the healthcare sector causes harm for which we from the Bulgarian Association of Health Care Professionals, the Bulgarian Association of Assistant Pharmacists and the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics cannot remain indifferent.<\/p>\n

We are convinced that the most valuable thing in healthcare is the staff and we are determined to protect our professions, as well as in the interest of our patients, together to seek a path to a positive and lasting solution to the crisis. We are asking you to hold a joint meeting with you to present the specific problems of our professions, possible solutions and proposals for legislative changes, taking into account our professional experience and good European practices for the adequate integration of our professions in healthcare, write to the authorities of the three organizations.<\/p>\n

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