Emergency medical responders

A 10-year-old boy died after collapsing during a shopping trip with his mother in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday evening.

According to reports on Thursday, the boy's mother called an ambulance when her son said that he was feeling very unwell but he collapsed before paramedics could reach the shopping center where the incident took place.

Within the scope of the works of the Health Ministry, motorcycle ambulances have been introduced to provide emergency healthcare services to patients within minutes, especially in zones where traffic jams are frequent.

A 30-year-old man is in a coma after an accident on the Ring Road in Sofia.

The accident occurred shortly after midnight, involving a vehicle driven by the victim and an EMS-Montana ambulance.

The seriously injured driver of the car was admitted to the Military Medical Academy.

COVID-19 patients and their families have told BIRN of spending hundreds of euros, in some cases up to 1,500 euros, on oxygen equipment for home use. Some said they subsequently offered the equipment for sale on social media.

The work of the emergency care in Pazardzhik has been organized to continue without interruption - employees from other affiliate in the district have been sent so that there are no worries about the work schedule. This was stated by the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov at a briefing in front of the media in Pazardzhik.

Violent storms and flooding along the French riviera killed 13 people by early Oct.4, emergency responders and local officials said, including three who drowned in a retirement home inundated when a river broke its banks.

Bulgarian Sofia Emergency Care staff are protesting against the low salaries and the long-lasting structural problems in their unit again, Monday morning.

Despite the Health Ministry's promise to provide additional emergency care teams and to discuss an eventual pay raise, employees have been protesting all week.

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.

All doctors from the Emergency Care unit in Sofia have resigned collectively.

The medics are holding a protest at the Health Ministry, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).