Healthcare is the first priority of the Bulgarians: facing ‘Heart and Brain’ Sofia, the populists lose and disappear. Minister Condeva, please decide and do not be afraid: the people will bless you!

By Prof. Dr. Yana Simova, Ph. 
Director of the Bulgarian Cardiology Institute,
with over 400 scientific publications in the world’s leading journals

“My main professional and research passion is advanced medicine and leading-edge medical science. The management of a large research organization and the multifaceted methodical leadership of the newest and most modern hospitals inevitably led me to conceptual analyses in health care policy in our country, Europe and developed democratic countries.

Why have all those in the MoH and National Assembly who are against the licensing of ‘Heart and Brain’ Sofia failed and will fail in their political careers?

Because they cannot answer the question of how this new hospital, which practices medicine and research at the European and American level, will infringe on the right of choice guaranteed in the law and on the interests of the people of Sofia, who have one of the lowest levels of satisfaction with medical care in the country and in the European Union. The primitive populism that has been exercised over the last four years, in all its forms, including through parliamentary scrutiny, has a serious conflict with itself. Populism does not have the dignity to acknowledge the simple truth that the private initiative is competent, takes on the worst pathology in hospitals outside Sofia, operates state-of-the-art 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and has remarkably good social outcomes for all – from low in-hospital mortality and high industrial productivity to record GDP and unprecedented tax collection. […]