Close to one in three Bulgarians are finding it difficult or very difficult to cope with health costs, one in ten have taken out loans to cover health expenditures, indicates a survey conducted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Societies and Knowledge Studies.
More than 50 percent of health costs are covered by the patient, with the state transferring the financial burden onto the public being a lasting tendency. Close to one in four Bulgarians have no access to a doctor, a paramedic or to medicines. Cardiovascular problems and high blood pressure are no longer a health issue but a national problem, the survey reads.
On Monday, the weather will be mostly sunny before noon. There will be some cumulus clouds in the afternoon, which may bring brief showers to some places, mainly in eastern Bulgaria and the mountains. Temperatures will reach 27 to 32°C, around 27°C in..
The introduction of the euro will not affect household electricity prices, Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov told BNR. He added that from the day Bulgaria adopts the single European currency, electricity bills will be recalculated at the legally approved..
President Rumen Radev and Vice President Iliana Yotova will take part this evening in the commemoration of the 149th anniversary of the brave actions of poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev and his chetnicks. The event will take place in Vratsa , the..
Protests in defence of the Bulgarian lev and against the adoption of the euro currency are scheduled to take place on May 31 in many cities and towns..
Thousands of citizens have gathered in the center of Sofia to protest against the introduction of the euro . The demonstration is supported by political..
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev , who attended the National Assembly of Sheep Breeders at the Peter and Paul Monastery near Lyaskovets, greeted the..
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