BULGARIA - Restructuring of Pilot Multi-Profile Hospitals and the Developing Emergency Medical Care

Medium-term objectives:

• To ensure access to high-quality medical services, including emergency medical assistance to members from ethnic minorities, in particular for the Rom community, the disabled and inhabitants from remote areas.
• To improve the standard of life by reducing disabilities caused by emergency cases with particular reference to the disadvantaged (ethnic minorities), especially the Rom minority, with particular reference to cardio-vascular diseases.

Actions

• To lay the basis for the further development of a model of two multi-purpose hospitals for active treatment including the establishment of centres for emergency medical treatment
• Creation of a complete database
• Modernization of medical and non-medical equipment and transport vehicles
• Purchase of a mobile diagnostic unit with modern equipment
• Re-organization of multi-purpose hospitals for active treatment including centres for emergency medical treatment
• Training of the medical and administrative staff of the two pilot hospitals on EMC models
• Awareness-raising campaign regarding behaviour and response to emergency cases