Health care

Primary care physicians across the country began a three-day strike May 20 against working on weekends, which the Health Ministry had made obligatory earlier this year. 

Bulgaria's health care system has the potential to considerably boost its performance while cutting out-of-pocket spending, the World Bank has said.

Folk legend Joni Mitchell is conscious and expected to make a full recovery, her official website said April 28, denying a report that she was in a coma.

Hospital workers and pharmacists on Friday joined the growing list of those concerned about the legislative decree forcing public bodies to deposit their cash reserves at the Bank of Greece so the central government can use them to pay debt obligations.

By Nikos Vatopoulos

These days, it?s easy to forget the role that the northeastern Aegean island of Lemnos played in the First World War. However, with the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign coming up on April 25, that looks set to change.

Shades of Frankenstein emerged on the international medical scene this week after the announcement that a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, is volunteering to become the first human to undergo a …head transplant – that means cutting off the head and attaching it to another body!

Deputy Regional Development Minister Denitsa Nikolova announced that Bulgaria will purchase over 300 new ambulances for the needs of the emergency medical service with EU funds.

Nikolova said this in the town of Troyan, where she unveiled the renovated municipal hospital on Tuesday, the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reports.

Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgery of Targu Mures (IBCvT) Horatiu Suciu on Tuesday announced having performed the second heart transplantation this year, precisely 42 years after the first open-heart surgery in Romania was performed at the same clinic.

Photo credit: DORINA MATIS / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

A 49-year old woman is in a coma and her life is currently in danger after the severe crash near Varbitsa. Another 56-year old woman passed away late on Saturday.

A student at a nursing school in Athens stabbed three of her classmates on Thursday, causing minor injuries.

Authorities said the unnamed 22-year-old woman got up during class and attacked the three women, who were taken to the hospital, where they received stitches.

It was not clear what prompted the would-be nurse?s actions.