President Radev is in a deep internal contradiction!

by Dr. Velimir Simov, pediatrician, and all the doctors and medical specialists at the clinic for maternal and children’s health ‘Mama and I’ in Pleven

On May 1, President Rumen Radev launched a campaign against the decision of Council of Ministers No. 318 of April 30, which authorizes a new modern multi-profile hospital ‘Mama
and I’ in Sofia, and on May 6 he explained to all media „… there is room for private initiative in healthcare in Bulgaria, but especially children’s healthcare should be a national priority and here the state should stand its ground, and there is a delay of so many years in building a national children’s hospital…“.

Questions:
How exactly is the ‘Mama and I’ project in Sofia preventing the state from standing its ground?

Obviously not with the envisaged 40 pediatric beds, which the investor was ready to give up; is there something else?

Is there state protectionism in Sofia healthcare and a blockade of patient access to quality competition; where does the VP’s husband work and what is his salary?

Do you believe that we physicians, and pediatricians in particular, are serfs and can be feudalized into someone else’s public or private healthcare estate?

Notwithstanding the fact that you, Mr. President, have issued the decree appointing Prime Minister Glavchev and his government, should you not strictly observe the fundamental
constitutional principle of separation of powers and not interfere in the work of the executive branch with instructional calls to overrule lawful and correct decisions?

Do you think that by blocking Sofia patients and preventing the entry of competition on European and American quality of practiced medicine, the 50 percent empty and
unattractive beds in the capital will be filled, or the severe deficit of pediatricians and nurses will be overcome?

Do you believe that PM Glavchev can legally overrule a legitimate decision of the Council of Ministers because of “doubts” and unsettled “facts”?

Why have you never taken it upon yourself to block many hundreds of new hospital beds and activities in Sofia licensed by your caretaker and regular governments until now?

Can a blockade of quality competition address the demographic crisis or stop patients and families continuing to pour their last savings into private hospitals abroad?

We have already invited Prime Minister Glavchev, and today, most cordially, kindly and openly, on the Day of Bravery and the Great Bulgarian Army, we invite you to visit us in
Pleven where we treat the most severe cases of sick children from all over Bulgaria – to see that the European level of healthcare is possible in the Motherland – because children are
the most precious thing!

“We dared to imagine, we did it ourselves and we found a brighter future for our children”, … “We are the first newly built clinic for maternal and children’s health in Bulgaria in the
last 50 years, which opened its doors on June 1, 2023 and achieves high results”.