Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Bulgaria Medics Issue Strike Threat
| 13 March 2008 |
Photo By Sofia Echo
The head of the Bulgarian Medical Association, BMA, Andrei Kehaiov told Dvenik daily that he had demanded meetings with both Bulgarian Prime Minister Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev “but they didn’t want to hear them,” he said.
He said his organisation’s demands were being taken seriously by the European Union who was taking interest in the case.
Kehaiov blamed the authorities for not pursuing dialogue with medical personnel on serious problems in the healthcare system, accusing them of threatening citizens’ lives.
Medical staff have urged the Bulgarian Government to draft a long-term plan on reforming the country’s crippling health service.
The country has been hit by a wave of protests in the past several months, increasing pressure on the Socialist-led government to boost living standards in the poorest EU nation, where monthly salaries average about 450 levs (€ 250).
The European Union newcomer has pledged to reform its inefficient and corrupt health sector, but has done little to tackle the problems in the 18 years since the fall of communism.
Source: Dvenik / Balkan Insight
