Virginia Gonzalez Torres

In an effort to complete ongoing reforms to mental health services and rectify mistakes made along the way, the Health Ministry is preparing a draft law, which, according to Deputy Minister Dimitris Vartzopoulos, aims "to radically restructure the system of organization and administration of mental health services." Currently almost all psychiatric clinics at large hospitals are overcrowded. 

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee urges Bulgaria to stop physical ill-treatment of psychiatric patients and social care residents and to immediately cease the shameful practice of using chains as a means of restraint