[size=85:p1yb2ofl]Standart 22 July 2010

Desperate Bulgarian Mothers Seek Second Chance for Children
[size=85:p1yb2ofl]Cut-down social aid puts the life of two little girls at stake



Two single mothers are desperately seeking foster families for their seriously ill children. For several months now, twenty-six-year-old Angelina and her friend Rezie have been begging the state institutions to help their gravely ill children, suffering chronic renal insufficiency. At present, the two desperate women live on the meagre 260 levs per month, which could hardly provide food, clothes and medication for their children.
Four-year-old Anabel needs a kidney transplant, but she cannot rely on the national transplant fund, because her mother cannot pay for the expensive medical examinations. Angelina and her child live in a shabby one-bedroom flat in Sofia district of Lyulin, but their hearts have been big enough to share their humble abode with Razie and her seven-year-old girl Kader. In addition to kidney problems, the little girl also has deformed legs and cannot walk.

how sad, bulgaria needs to review its policy on charges for medication, its really expensive here for simple ailments like a hernia, nexium costs a lev each tablet which is a lot over a year for a simple relief. i cannot understand how such a poor county charges excessive money for real basic needs, bulgarians dont stand a chance here in their own country, that does not want to know them, disgusting it is.

starlite wrote:

how sad, bulgaria needs to review its policy on charges for medication, its really expensive here for simple ailments like a hernia, nexium costs a lev each tablet which is a lot over a year for a simple relief. i cannot understand how such a poor county charges excessive money for real basic needs, bulgarians dont stand a chance here in their own country, that does not want to know them, disgusting it is.

Totally agree with you Star - When you consider what medical care we get here on the NHS FREE and yet these little have to struggle just to survive. I think the Bulgarian government has to stand up and take some responsibility for their own people and sort themselves out. There is no reason what so every now that they have the backing of the EU that any child should suffer. Children should be their main priority.

Oddy