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STOYCHO KATSAROV
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The Ministry of Health has not carried out an inspection in Pirogov, at least since I have been a minister, but the NHIF. This report lists 400 or more cases of patients who were not in Pirogov but were discharged mainly with 2 diagnoses – liver cirrhosis and chronic kidney failure. For this thing “Pirogov” has received over 1 million levs. This thing comes to me as a principal. I can do 2 things – one is to say no problem, everything is fine, do what you want The only measure the minister can take is to release the hospital manager. That’s what I did. The report has ample evidence of serious violations in reporting these pathways. I believe that 99 per cent of the staff “Pirogov has no idea about this thing, he doesn’t know at all about what happened and it is not worthy for the manager to hide behind people’s backs.”
This was stated by the acting Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov in the program “Face to Face” on BTV. According to him, each of these 400 or more people could now get a lifelong decision from the TEMC for a disability pension.
“What the Health Insurance Fund has established is indisputable,” Katsarov insisted. “Of course the hospital can appeal, but the court will confirm the findings of the health insurance fund. Should the Minister of Health close his eyes? I myself have an epicrisis of ‘liver cirrhosis’.” “Although I have not been in the hospital with such a diagnosis and at the time indicated. I have a copy of my entire medical history. I have not had the tests described. I am one of those cases.” And he confirmed through the presenter Tsvetanka Rizova that he is one of the “fake patients”.
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