Cherno More Newspaper
Issue 218 (1732)
Varna, 18-Sep-2003, Thursday
According to a nurse: FOREIGN CITIZENS ON ILLEGAL TREATMENT IN ST. MARINA HOSPITAL
Kalinka Pencheva
Polina Ivanova
The inspections of the authorized institutions alarmed about risk of infection have not found out crimes
Foreign citizens undergo medical treatment in the hemodialysis unit of St. Marina Hospital without being recorded in the medical register. According to Nurse Reneta Stoyanova from this unit, the illegal treatment does not guarantee safe epidemiologic settings. As the patients do not exist officially no supplies have been provided for them. This means that the probability for single-use syringes, for example, to be used several times is not small. Therefore, the foreigners could be infected with hepatitis C, B and even with AIDS, develops her thesis the health worker.
Accused of the "underhand deal", the money of which will not come to the budget of the hospital, are Prof. Dimitar Nenov and the executive director of St. Marina Hospital, Dr. Krasimir Ivanov, Associate-Profesor.
The medical nurse has sent a dozen of complaints to all possible instances which are authorized to find out infringements and to intercept them.
The reply from the Regional Police Department is that there have not been found out any signs of crime. After a check of the documents, the 2nd Police Station makes it clear that there are no data of general crime or any disorders in the organization of work.
By the end of May, two inspections of the HD unit were made by the Ministry of Health and the Commission of Health . The inspections were initiated by an alerting letter sent by the medical nurse. Bozhidar Finkov, the then minister of health, sent a reply that "the inspections of the two commissions unequivocally have proved that there are no cases of medical malpractice in the treatment and epidemiologic regimes in the clinic of hemodialysis in St. Marina Hospital – Varna." According to his experts, the Varna HD unit is one is one of the leading medical establishments within the network of hemodialysis units in Bulgaria and can successfully participate in the international exchange of patients in the field of dialysis treatment.
The Ministry of Health emphasizes on that how the hygiene is maintained in the unit. Besides, there is a contract for dialyzing of 16 Belgian citizens, say from Sofia. The Ministry of Health doe not reply anything to the medical nurse's allegations that another 13 Israeli citizens underwent illegal course of treatment.
Hemodialysis is an extraordinarily costly medical service. That is why the huge charge is taken up by the state in Belgium and Israel.
One of our reporters attempted to get in contact with the executive director of the hospital but it turned out that he was on a business trip abroad.
Dr. Kiril Nenov, Associate-Professor: Stoyanova is psychologically unstable
Reneta Stoyanova has worked in this clinic for 15 years, says Dr. Kiril Nenov, Associate-Professor in the HD unit of St. Marina Hospital.
I think that she is psychologically unstable, with sudden changes in her mood. She was not always immaculate in performing her duties, she felt underestimated and posed herself above the other physicians, explains the medical professional.
According to Dr. Nenov, Reneta Stoyanova’s motivation to undertake action against the clinic is her desire to incur troubles to the head nurse of the unit, B. Demireva.
Asked about Reneta Stoyanova’s allegations that the foreigners have not been recorded, the boss of the unit explained that preliminary contracts were concluded with the Belgians to the amount of BGL 17,000 which are kept in the head physician’s office.
