TO:
Dr. ATANAS SHTEREV, ASSOCIATE-PROFESSOR
CHAIRMAN OF PARLIAMENT COMMISSION OF HEALTH
COPY:
Mrs RENETA STOYANOVA
[address]
DEAR DR SHTEREV,
With regard to Reneta Stoyanova’s letter alerting about risk of infection for foreign citizens in St Marina Hospital HD unit, by order # 168 of 26-May-2003, Dr. K. Ivanov, Associate-Professor, Executive Director of the above said hospital, ordered an inspection in the clinic. The appointed commission checked the organization of avtivities, the procedures on providing qualitative dialysis treatment, the collective and individual protective means for the staff from dangerous biological agents and the epidemiologic standards in the HD unit. The report prepared by the commission points that there has not been a case of dialyzing a Belgian patient upon a machine used by a virus carrier of HBV before, and that the organization of work, the standards of qualitative servicing and the health cares for the patients are on contemporary level and meet the current achievements of the medical science. The necessary protective means are regularly supplied as well as disinfectants, detergents, materials and supplies, and the disinfection and epidemiologic regimes are observed (Supplement 1).
Another inspection was made by a commission from the Regional Center of Health – Varna on the grounds of Order # 425 of 26-May-2003 by the Director of the Regional Center of Health. The commission ascertained that all possible measures had been taken in the clinic of hemodialysis to protect both the Bulgarian and foreign citizens form infection (Supplement 2).
The treatment of the foreign patients has been regulated by a contract concluded between the Prof. Nenov Ltd Medical Center for Specialized Medical Aid and St. Marina Hospital of Varna (Supplement 3).
The inspections of the two commissions unequivocally show that there are no cases of medical malpractice in the treatment and epidemiologic regimes in the clinic of hemodialysis in St Marina Hospital – Varna and, moreover, that it 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.
MINISTER: [signature illegible] Dr BOZHIDAR FINKOV, ASSOCIATE-PROFESSOR
[seal of Ministry of Health, Bulgaria]
