{"id":3650,"date":"2026-01-20T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:17:48","slug":"bnt-20-1-2026-novinite-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bslaf.bg\/en\/bnt-20-1-2026-novinite-20\/","title":{"rendered":"BNT: Just for a week: Three attacks on medics in Veliko Tarnovo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Union of Medical Assistants asked for emergency teams to be equipped with body cameras and panic buttons<\/p>\n

Aggression against medics. In just seven days, three physical assaults on paramedics from the emergency centers in Gorna Oryahovitsa, Pavlikeni and Polski Trambesh were recorded in Veliko Tarnovo. Following the attacks by the Union of Medical Assistants, emergency teams were asked to be equipped with body cameras and individual panic buttons.<\/p>\n

Zachary Zinev has been a paramedic for over 40 years. In the last 13 works in the branch of Emergency Services in Polski Trambesh. In the early hours of January 18, he responded to a report of a victim after a fight in a restaurant. The man had an arcade on his face. The doctor invited him to the emergency room. As he prepared to process the wound, the patient began to behave arrogantly.<\/p>\n

Zahari Zinev, paramedic at FSMP - Polski Trambesh: \"Dude, dude, now what are you gonna do to me, what do you got, what don't you have...\" And I said to him: Be a little more cultural. If that's how you behaved at the bar, then it's no accident that you were hit. And he jumped out of the chair, came to the table where I was preparing things and gave me two punches in the back of the head. Then I put him to bed on the couch, processed his wound, glued it.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old man was detained for 24 hours. And the paramedic's considering leaving.<\/p>\n

Zahari Zinev, paramedic at FSMP - Polski Trambesh: At first I said to myself: What I'm doing here, what I'm here for. Okay, but when time passes, when you think about it, you're like, These people need me, too.<\/p>\n

The branch in Polski Trambesh employs a total of four paramedics and one doctor. They serve a total of 13 settlements. About 1,400 paramedics work in the emergency system. Most of them are of pre-retirement and retirement age. Verbal aggression is a daily routine for teams across the country, according to the Union of Medical Assistants.<\/p>\n

Galina Zaharieva, Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian Union of Medical Assistants and Paramedics: We don't have well-developed outpatient care, and all those patients who have nowhere to go outside working hours go to emergency care, and that's where the tension actually comes in.<\/p>\n

For the first nine months of last year, there were 75 physical assaults on medics. The union of medical assistants wants emergency teams to be equipped with individual panic buttons and body cameras that include the riskier addresses.<\/p>\n

Galina Zaharieva: When they know they're being photographed and that there's going to be evidence, I think it's going to have a deterrent effect.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health says the introduction of individual panic buttons has been discussed with emergency workers. Some of them were worried that they might inadvertently trigger them. And the use of body cameras is a measure that should be subjected to a wide public and expert debate, given the sensitive situations and the processing of patients' personal and health data, the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n

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

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