Emergency department

The government allocates nearly BGN 100 million for the medical institutions, which provide over 50% of their bed capacity for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.

The funds are also intended for repair, construction and new equipment in large hospitals.

Cases of patients who arrived at the Emergency Center in the Bulgarian town of Dupnitsa with haemorrhages due to wrong self-medication with aspirin at home have recently increased, Nova TV reported.

The hospital's "Code 99," a signal informing medical staff that the patient needed resuscitation, sounded five times in less than an hour.
"They're so sick that we lose them in an instant. They talk to you, and a few minutes later, we insert a tube into their throats and hope to put a breathing apparatus in to help them," Julie Eason, a respiratory therapist, told CNN.

A nurse and a female security guard at the Papageorgiou hospital in the northern city of Thessaloniki were beaten by a visitor angered by the long wait in the emergency room.

The incident took place on Wednesday evening, when the woman arrived with her mother at the hospital's emergency room for a pulmonary exam.

More than 4.7 million patients are estimated to visit the emergency departments of Greece's understaffed and cash-strapped public hospitals every year, with doctors arguing that 60 to 70 percent of that intake could be avoided if the primary healthcare sector were better organized.

Several disaster and emergency medicine manuals, as well as handbooks for medicine residents and nurses were officially released in Bucharest on Wednesday.

1,800 people have sought medical help in the emergency department of University Hospital Pirogov since April 26, the institution said, quoted by NOVA TV.

Its teams had difficult shifts in the Easter holidays. Of those 1,800 people, 260 had to remain in the hospital. The number of admitted patients with no health insurance was 15.

An increase in violent attacks on staff at the country's hospitals has prompted the Panhellenic Medical Association to launch a public awareness campaign to curb the phenomenon.

There is a growing number of cases of violence against doctors, reported NOVA TV. 

Tests were under way on Monday to determine the exact cause of death of a five-year-old girl who was transferred to the emergency room of Crete's Irakleio General Hospital in the early hours of the morning.