Re: Some questions which remain unanswered in connection with hepatitis spread in HD units
Dear Mr Minister,
I herewith inform you that I still have not received any answers to the questions which I asked in a letter to you of 9 July 2003.
I hope that, although with a long delay, you will answer those questions as well as the questions that follow:
1. From where can I learn what the number (percentage) is of patients infected with the virus of hepatitis B and C in the HD units in Bulgaria?
2. From where can I receive information about specific epidemiological standards concerning hepatitis infection in HD units, such as the minimal admissible percentage of patients infected with the virus of hepatitis B and C in the HD units, for in the Standard for Hemodialysis Treatment published in State Gazette in March 2004 there are none?
3. I would also like to get acquainted with a Bulgarian regulation, if any, for limiting the spread of hepatitis C in HD units similar to the one published in Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation Magazine online at the address:
for I was an HD nurse for over15 years yet I never saw such a regulation.
I would like to bring to your attention the fact that these questions are very important especially now when Bulgaria is in a process of accession to EU. No doubt HD patients exchange will expand, medical tourism will develop, and Bulgaria must be ready to meet the challenges. There is still a long way to go before we can say that our HD units are on European level. As a university graduate with English language as my major, I would be glad if I could help with translations from English into Bulgarian of pertinent informative materials for the prestige of our health care and our country to be enhanced before the world.