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Pulmonary hospital in Veliko Tarnovo urgently needs doctors for Covid-19 ward

Photo: Zdravka Maslyankova, BNR correspondent

The situation in the municipal lung diseases hospital in the town of Veliko Tarnovo is extremely worrying due to the lack of doctors and the constantly growing number of patientsThe director of the medical institution, Dr. Stella Dencheva, has warned that the hospital could close after the New Year. There are sick doctors as well as doctors who have given their notice to leave.

The Covid-19 ward of the hospital currently treats 19 patients, there are other patients with non-specific lung diseases, as well as patients with tuberculosis. "With eight doctors needed, we have only three in the hospital, which dooms the hospital to closure", Dr. Stella Dencheva told the BNR's correspondent in Veliko Tarnovo.



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