I don't envy the Minister of Health now, because we are seeing protests again. Look, these are problems that have been accumulating for decades. Before I took this position, I also felt this. In my case, the union "Protection" very often led representatives of Emergency Medical Services, who are extremely important. For example, drivers - these people save lives. If they are not in their place... Their work is extremely important. I paid them as much attention as I could. Thank God, during my time there were two increases in the salaries of emergency medical workers, which somewhat eased the tension. People have reason to protest. He announced this to Lili Marinkova in the studio "FACT" and the show "Conversation" Professor Hristo Hinkov.
„The health budget is higher than all previous budgets and is already almost 10 billion, which, in itself, is good. It's just that the distribution within the budget is not good and it follows a logic of giving money for hospital care and medicines to a much greater extent than for outpatient care, for research and for preventive measures. Look, the entire healthcare pyramid is oriented towards following events, not preventing things. And this trend is continuing, and that's a shame. There was a short period when our efforts to change this were going well, but it is impossible for this to happen in 10 months. This should be a permanent and very sustainable policy of gradually transferring funds from hospital care and medicines mainly to research in outpatient care. They are an extremely important item in the current budget“, the guest added.
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