Emergency medicine

A concerning new trend has emerged from the WHO Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) in Ukraine: Ambulance workers and other personnel servicing health transport face a risk of injury and death three times higher than that of other health care service workers.  

Two of them were transferred to Tirova, and the third, who suffered injuries from a sharp object, was transferred to the Emergency Center, they added from the Emergency Department.
The police went to the scene of the incident.

Today marked a significant milestone for Bulgaria's healthcare as the Minister of Health, Hristo Hinkov, officially presented the nation's inaugural medical helicopter. The unveiling ceremony highlighted eight months of dedicated efforts to ensure equitable access to emergency medical care across the country.

A skilled emergency medical team from the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance in Pleven successfully delivered a baby girl in an ambulance. Dr. Viola Ignatova and midwife Kalinka Velichkova adeptly assisted in the birth of the child, providing critical care during the emergency delivery.

A patient who was undergoing treatment at the surgery clinic of the Attikon Hospital in western Athens committed suicide by plunging from a fourth floor window, according to announcement on Saturday by the president of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers, Michalis Giannakos. 

A mass fight took place around 9:00 p.m. in the capital's "Lyulin" 2 district.

According to the National Radio, more than 20 people were involved in the incident. The mass fight took place in the area of block 204 and was provoked by an accident.

Many police patrols and emergency teams arrived at the scene.

The fear of lawsuits alleging malpractice are prompting an increasing number of doctors to practice so-called "defensive medicine" and order tests that are not medically necessary. 

There is no danger to the life of the nurse who was attacked with a knife at her workplace yesterday. She is in a stable condition and has been placed in the intensive care unit of the hospital, where she will stay for another day or two, reports the "Tsaritsa Ioana" hospital, where she was admitted.

Ljubljana – The Medical Chamber has called for efforts to improve the status of doctors, as it warned that their current pay, not comparable to Western European countries in terms of workload, is resulting in brain drain. Young doctors are less and less likely to take up certain medical specialties due to difficult working conditions, it said.

The head of COVID resuscitation at the University Hospital "Medica-Ruse" Dr. Milen Shopov showed on the air of "Hello, Bulgaria" what is the situation in his ward. He said that only one resuscitation bed was available and 46 were used by patients. None of them had been vaccinated.