state-owned institution

"In the state hospital, we often had to wait half a day for exams; in winter, we were queuing up outside, in the freezing cold," she shudders. "I had to face doctors who went through the same routine over and over again, without taking the time to find out why I can't conceive.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has demanded that Gen Stoyan Tonev, an MP who heads the Healthcare Committee in Parliament, media sources say.

On Monday Gen Tonev came in the spotlight after an audit of the Defense Ministry in the Medical Military Academy, a medical institution he headed between 2002 and 2013.