[size=55:1a6ln0ng]Standart 05 October 2010

Save Life and Get Fine
Doctors have their salaries cut if they do not refuse to treat extra patients

Doctors have faced a new personal dilemma - the salary or the patient. Doctors who treat patients more than the number planned by Health Fund will be sanctioned, threatened Dr Decho Dechev from St Ivan Rilski clinic.
"
I am forced to do so in order to secure the hospital survival"
.
Ten days ago the Health Fund announced the hospitals will be paid only 75% of the sums they were given the previous year. "
This means we will have to cancel planned operations to have the capacity to treat the emergency cases,"
Dr Dechev said. Other hospital principals also intend to introduce the drastic measure. The additional 65 million levs from the Ministry of Finance have not reached the clinics. The aid will hardly solve a problem because by now the hospitals' debts have swollen to half a billion levs, according to doctors.

This is becoming a very serious situation indeed. Boyko needs to pull his finger out now if he doesn't want to be (justifiably) accused of genocide.

No pressure then

Maybe just a tad

This is just totally insane no wonder the doctors in Bulgaria are all leaving its no surprise and if this continues there won't be and health service left I think they need to take a reality check

Why do you think there is "
reality"
in Bulgaria? We are all in the sixth dimension here

I don't know if I should laugh or cry at this or just point the government to the nearest nut house

You get what you pay for its that simple,sad but true,nothing for nothing

mickhev wrote:

You get what you pay for its that simple,sad but true,nothing for nothing

Very true but you can't put a price on the life of a person