{"id":2414,"date":"2025-01-15T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:39:18","slug":"lekarski-asistenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/en\/lekarski-asistenti\/","title":{"rendered":"News.bg: Healthcare professionals at war to regulate their professions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regulate the professions of health care professionals. This was demanded at a press conference by the professional organizations.<\/p>\n

We will fight a war for rules for our professions, announced Milka Vasileva, Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Health Care Professionals (BAHCP). \"By protecting ourselves, we are protecting patients first and foremost,\" she said. The insistence is that health care professionals as a regulated profession should be able to develop and qualify.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics (UBLAF) Alexander Alexandrov reported that the medical assistants are well represented and well received. In time, we suffered all sorts of shocks, they tried to close us down, he pointed out. We were hidden from the public, Alexandrov explained. We will defend the idea of the existence of our profession, he threatened. The state has hidden potential in the face of paramedics and medical assistants. Lilyana Petrova, President of the Bulgarian Association of Assistant Pharmacists (BAPF), wants support from the National Assembly (NA) to protect their professional problems. There is no constructive dialogue with the institutions and no audibility of our problems, she stressed. There is no understanding of the postgraduate training of health care professionals, according to her. The staffing problem is at a critical level, in her opinion. Urgent solutions are needed, according to the professional organisations. Decisions are critically delayed, Petrova said. The legislative vacuum in the area is deepening, she added. Many protest letters were written, many declarations were sent, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

One in three nurses is of retirement age, one in four midwives is of retirement age. Healthcare is collapsing, Milka Vasileva said. The fact that nurses and rehabilitators work in 2 and 3 places saves the health system. Health care professionals are adamant that health care reform is needed. No health minister has ever dealt with one before. Young people have no motivation to study in our profession, Vassileva said. The starting salary of BGN 1500 has not been reached, as it should be under a collective agreement. About 65% Graduates do not enter the health care system. At the same time, there is a huge gap between young and old cadres, as young people are trained in new models and technologies. The problem is that every hospital has its own rules. Therefore, health care professionals want unified rules of work. The government should finally realize the problems of the sector, according to Milka Vassileva. We want a constructive dialogue, she stressed. They want health care standards.<\/p>\n

Recently, health organizations signed an agreement uniting to protect the professions they represent and express readiness for joint action against isolation, inequities in contacts with institutions and the long-standing lack of adequate and workable solutions in healthcare to solve the personnel crisis. They ask why the opinion of the professions is not sought before making management decisions, as well as why medics from the represented professions continue to leave. Conscious organizations are alarmed by the personnel crisis, which is already spreading to large cities, health imbalances are becoming more apparent, but this does not cause an adequate response and measures to be taken to contain them.<\/p>\n

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