HBI Deals+Insights / Healthcare Reform

Bulgaria backtracks on hospital closures

Just days after the Ministry of Health announced the closure of small municipal and private speciality hospitals, the new Health Minister Stefan Konstantinov said that no hospitals would be closed. Owners of Bulgaria’s 100 private hospitals breathed a sigh of relief. But it can’t last – Bulgaria today probably has even more beds per capita than Germany but spends under EUR900 per capita compared to Germany at nearly EUR3,000!...

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