PM Denkov, ministers, all MPs and mayors to donate one salary

The only major advance in children’s healthcare in 2023 is the June 1 opening of the newly built high-tech maternal and child health clinic “Mom and Me.” The hospital is overcrowded. Many people are talking, only we are showing up in person and treating the worst cases.

Designed, built and developed with the most advanced medical expertise – without a penny of state investment and without any support from philanthropic campaigns – the “phenomenon” of “Mommy and Me” is now unfolding the front against infant mortality and disability of children and adolescents in Bulgaria. With or without protests or with donation campaigns, initiatives, networks, associations or public councils, nothing else really happens. Even hot water and electricity are not available in some individual.

Every day many parents raise funds through TV shows, social networks and foundations for the treatment of their children abroad. Some manage to meet the high costs, most never. And why don’t we in Bulgaria develop our own network for paediatric help and care with world-leading expertise and make it accessible to all? N a t i o n a l Children’s Hospital. And there won’t be one any time soon, because after the Mum and Me project in Sofia 20 months ago brought together doctors and patient organisations, the state got around to choosing the site. The interests of politicians and parents still diverge. So we took the development into our own hands. Foreign experience is a guide even for our modest scale – a closer and some unattainable example:
– Over 40 million euros have been raised from donations (350 thousand individuals and over 8 thousand companies) in Romania for a specialised children’s oncology hospital with 187 beds. The project has been completed in four years and the facility is now operational.
– More than 850 million Swiss francs have been raised by the private Eleonore Foundation in Zurich for a 230-bed children’s hospital that will open at the end of 2024. The hospital is neither state-owned nor belongs to the cantonal university hospital.

It is therefore time to move to direct donation to raise our national expertise to a world-class level and cover the whole territory of the country.

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