Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Bulgaria

 

Private sector grows in Bulgaria

The private hospital sector in Bulgaria continues to grow according to Illian Grigorov, CEO of City Hospitals who plans to plan to open a 60 bed cardiac and vascular centre in Sofia this autumn and a 90 bed hospital in Varna for 2013/2014. That means competing with foreign hospitals.
May 30, 2012

Interview: Dr Hasan Kus, Healthcare Business Development President, Anadolu Group

A third of all sales at Anadolu Medical Center (AMC), a JCI accredited hospital in Istanbul with 209 beds which is affiliated to John Hopkins in the USA, now comes from healthcare tourism. Last year foreign patients rose to 5,400. The main hospital is not-for-profit and part of the Anadolu Foundation, owned by Anadolu Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the country, but plans are afoot to put the healthcare tourism arm into a for-profit operation. Anadolu has just constructed a 82 bed on campus hotel to take outpatients and their families and is planning to add outpatient facilities in Romania and other client countries. The campus will also soon boast a University facility for teaching doctors, run by Anadolu Foundation....
March 20, 2012

Medihealth aims at Poland

Medihelp, the Bupa insurance broker which claims an 80-90% of the market for high-end healthcare insurance sales in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, intends to move into Poland. President Zahal Levy claims his sales are growing at between 40-50% a year. He is also investigating launching a lower priced product for the middle classes....
June 29, 2011

Bulgaria moves to Asian model

A reliable source says that the Bulgarian government is planning to implement a new healthcare model based on the Philippines and Turkey. The shift would mark a move away from the European model of universal healthcare for all. But changes are unlikely to be formally announced until after the presidential election later in 2011....
February 3, 2011

A sixth of Bulgaria’s nurses leave in 2010

Some 5,000 nurses have left Bulgaria this year, according to Renate Indjova, a former prime minister who now runs Tokuda, the big Japanese owned hospital in Sofia. That is a sixth of the workforce....
November 24, 2010

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!...
November 17, 2010

Balkans update

There were plenty of straws in the wind at Gastein on what is likely to happen in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Outright privatisation may not be the answer. Expect months of vacillation....
October 11, 2010

Bulgarian stalemate as minister resigns

Bulgarian Health Minister Anna-Maria Borisova has resigned after less than six months in office. Her replacement Stefan Konstantinov looks likely to inject more money into the system. Promised reforms, including unpopular co-payments and the slashing of hospital numbers, had been delayed....
September 30, 2010
Older posts
Newer posts

Our Services

Company

Resources

Log in
Register
Log in
Register

Our Services

Company

Resources

Find Us