"500,000 people do not have primary medical care," said the chairman of the expert council on anesthesiology and intensive care, Prof. Nikolay Mladenov, in the "This Morning" program. 

"For 30 years, we have been experimenting with emergency care and intensive care medicine, the results are visible.

We periodically give ourselves trouble in and answer to ourselves whether we have followed the protocols after all.

I would not say that we have quality protocols in Bulgaria.

A lot of things need to be done for emergency medicine so that it can look the way we would like it to," he added.

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"The political system must make a structural reform in health care.

Let's imagine healthcare as one corporate structure - with companies, Emergency Services, hospitals and personal doctors.

Let's ask ourselves if these structures are working perfectly inside so that the whole structure can work at its best.

The answer is no", explained Mladenov. 

He emphasized that this is also the reason that currently in Europe - Germany and France are starting a serious transformation of the hospital system, since the victim is emergency medicine. 

“The deficit is everywhere, in the US by 2030 it will be 30% less emergency teams.

In Bulgaria, there are 6,500 people undergoing training in emergency medicine.

These are the people we work with.

We have a disproportional development of medicine in Bulgaria - there are 108 hospital units in Sofia, and 45 in Plovdiv. There are areas that are completely depopulated in terms of intensive medicine.

500,000 people do not have primary medical care," said Mladenov. 

He was categorical that there are not enough trained people for emergency medicine in our country.