Ministry of Health

The flood victims in northwestern Bulgarian Mizia, Byala Slatina, Krushovitsa and Borovan will be getting a one-off state aid of BGN 325 each as of Friday.

Save the Children placed full-page adverts in British newspapers on Aug. 6 listing the names of 373 Palestinian children killed in Israel's offensive on Gaza, as part of the charity's campaign for a permanent ceasefire.

Three die of Listeria infection

SKOPJE -- Three persons died in Macedonia during the past month as a consequence of infection with the Listeria bacteria.

Seven cases in all have been registered in the Balkan country in the same period of time.

Alarming Results of the Health Study among Serbian Population Serbs Getting More Obese, Drinking and Smoking More

Serbs Getting More Obese, Drinking and Smoking More
22.1% adults and 13,7% children is Serbia are obese, 34.7% population smokes daily, and 54% consume alcohol, regularly, or occasionally.

Bulgaria's Emergency Care Units have declared a symbolic permanent protest as of Monday.

The National Association of Emergency care workers issued a protest declaration against the assaults on doctors, the violation of the right of way of ambulances and the lack of measures to ensure their safety, Bulgaria's Nova Tv reports.

BELGRADE - The reforms conducted by the Serbian government should better be slower but of higher quality, says Ronald Seeliger, the president of the German-Serbian Business Association.

The new teams of doctors from hospitals in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia that will provide help to the city emergency care unit will be set up, Tuesday.

The physicians from the municipal hospitals will work temporarily under civil contracts with the Center for emergency care. Thus, the emergency care teams in Sofia will increase from 11 to 20, Bulgarian National Radio reports.

BELGRADE - The Embassy of Israel in Serbia handed over the aid in sanitation materials, aimed to reduce the flood damage, to Serbia's Ministry of Health on Friday.

This is the third shipment of humanitarian aid sent from Israel to Serbia in response to the government appeal during the disastrous floods that swept through Serbia last month.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar met on Thursday in Belgrade with a delegation of GVM Care and Research, led by the company's Operative Director Dr. Francesco Maringelli.

Emergency care staff are on the streets again Tuesday to protest against the dire state of their unit.

The medics are determined not to let their newly appointed head Alexander Zlatanov assume his position, replacing Georgi Gelev, who was removed by the Health Minister.