A new social programme will support elderly people and people with disabilities. A total of 32,000 elderly people and persons with disablities in need of special care will be served in their homes. The social service is under a new programme..
T he Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) has launched a campaign which aims to promote human rights, the press center of the organization said. For the purpose, a special page has been created on the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee’s website...
62-year-old Albena Peneva, who has motor impairment due to a brain stroke, swam for two hours without interruption in a pool in Bulgaria's coastal city Burgas . By two minutes, she exceeded the previously announced two hours of continuous swimming of a..
The Ukrainian refugees coming Bulgaria find food and shelter. However, this is not enough for the children and people with special needs, who are left with almost no care. “Bulgaria is by no means prepared to receive such people. It..
There Is Such a People, ITN party has submitted a bill for amendments to the Personal Assistance Act. According to ITN MP Stanislav Balabanov, the idea is to improve the mechanism of providing assistance to people with disabilities, and to..
People with irreversible disabilities should no longer appear before the regional expert commissions (TELK) every three years for re-certification. This is envisaged in a draft amendment to the Ordinance on Medical Expertise, which the Minister of..
With a procession and songs on the square in the town of Dobrich, people with intellectual disabilities and their relatives once again demanded the abolition of the practice of placement under judicial disability. It is based on a law that has not been..
There are 6,895 candidate MPs. A total of 4,465 polling stations have been opened abroad. Bulgarians will be able to vote with voting machines in 9,384 polling stations. 409 mobile polling stations will be available to people with disabilities. 88..
As of 2022, the technical aids and medical devices for people with disabilities will now be covered entirely by the Health Insurance Fund. This was decided by the MPs voting on the final changes in the Law on People with Disabilities , BNR reported. The..
125 years have passed since the establishment of the first worker cooperative (TPK) in Bulgaria. Since its creation, labor cooperatives have contributed both to the development of Bulgarian society and to the building of the main economic structures..
