Ministry of Health

Loncar offered Josifovski an opportunity to join a Ministry of Health team that deals with the prevention of corruption in the health care sector.

Sofia. Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev has ordered inspections in the Ivan Seliminski Hospital, Sliven, over a death after childbirth, the Ministry of Health said. A team of the regional health inspectorate went to the hospital immediately after the woman's death was reported.

Albania's opposition centre-right Democratic Party has referred the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister to prosecutors for what it calls a brazen attempt to use schools to collect voter information for election-related purposes.

The government has prepared a 93-item “reform package” in a bid to lure crucial investors to Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ has said.

BELGRADE - Invitations to the 65th Prayer Breakfast in Washington have been sent to five addresses in Serbia, Politika reports.

HAVANA/BELGRADE - Serbia and Cuba on Friday signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of medicines and medicinal preparations.

On behalf of the Serbian government, the agreement was signed by Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar in Havana, the Serbian government press office said in a statement.

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Another BGN 300 thousand  will be provided by the Ministry of Health to the hospitals in Lovech and Vratsa, Minister of Health Nikolay Petrov told journalists, reported bTV.

Emergency assistance has already been paid in the two medical establishments, Minister Petrov assured.

Health Minister Nikolay Petrov has been urgently taken to a hospital with a kidney crisis, BNR announced.

So far, the Ministry of Health does not give more information about his condition. The control of the Health Minister are temporarily taken over by his deputy Lydia Neycheva.

"The Ministry of Healthcare is initiating an inter-ministerial task force to develop and propose measures to curb the use of hookahs and vegetable products for smoking," he said. The first meeting of the working group will be on August 30th.

Employees in the public health sector proceeded to build the main entrances of hospitals in the morning hours of Wednesday in protest against the Greek government’s policies. With chisel and trowel in hand members of the Panhellenic Association of Public Hospital Workers (POEDIN) started building a wall blocking off the main entrance of the building on Aristotelous street.