Minister Dr Kondeva: The structure of the National Children's Hospital will be ready by the end of August
30 July 2024
The plan for the structure and capacity of the National Children's Hospital will be ready by the end of August. It will be finally adopted after reaching a consensus between the Ministry of Health, the Health Investment Company and the European
Investment Bank. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Dr. Galya Kondeva, at a briefing after a working meeting to discuss the report on the structure of the children's hospital, prepared by the Bank and consultants from the Belgian-Spanish consortium IDOM.
The members of the Public Council for the Construction of a Children's Hospital also presented their opinions on the report on the structure to the consultants. They discussed their recommendations and comments with the IDOM team. The document will also be consulted with expert councils and professional organizations, will be considered within the Health Commission and will finally be published for public discussion.
Over 400 hospital beds are planned for the structure of the National Children's Hospital. Approximately 1,500 people will work at the hospital, of which about 300 doctors and over 450 nurses. This was stated at the briefing after the meeting by Dr. Vlatko Gligorov, Executive Director of the Health Investment Company for Children's Hospital.
The National Children's Hospital will be for highly specialized medical care, which will have an emergency department, pediatrics, pediatric surgery, medical oncology and oncohematology, cardiology and cardiac surgery, etc. Only a few specific pediatric specialties will remain in the medical institutions where they are currently provided. These are burns and plastic surgery at the Pirogov University Hospital, child psychiatry at the Alexandrovska University Hospital and radiotherapy in other structures on the territory of Sofia, Dr. Gligorov added.
I call on all stakeholders in the process of building a National Children's Hospital to approach it constructively, with the necessary respect and understanding for the deadlines that society, and especially children's health, assume, Dr. Kondeva was categorical. The meeting was attended by representatives of the management and experts from the Ministry of Health, the Health Investment Company for Children's Hospital, the Public Council for the Construction of a Children's Hospital, the European Investment Bank and the Belgian-Spanish consortium IDOM.
