“Hospitals have debts of around BGN 378 mln. Most of these are liabilities to pharmaceutical companies - suppliers of medicines and medical goods,” Health Minister Desislava Atanasova announced today in Veliko Tarnovo. She added that general meetings of multiprofile hospitals will be held. Being the principal of these healthcare establishments, the Minister has already demanded from them to present her measures and plans for coping with their indebtedness. Atanasova noted that most of the liabilities were accumulated in previous years and the present management teams of the hospitals are not to blame, but they have the responsibility to plan measures for dealing with these debts.

“The management teams of state-owned hospitals which fail to present plans for repayment of their liabilities will be replaced,” Desislava Atanasova answered a question about the measures to be taken for solving the problem of the debts of hospitals.