These days I read the new /another/ optimistic proposals for amendments to the TELK rules.

It became interesting to me, given the fact that various world organizations such as the WHO and others point to us as one of the sickest nations, never mind that we pay dearly and exorbitantly for health care.

A project for new amendments to the Ordinance on medical expertise, on which the rights of hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians with disabilities depend, prepared by the Ministry of Health, foresees expanding the possibilities for a lifetime solution from TELC and NELC with 29 new diseases.

They promise us that more people in need will be able to receive foreign aid.

Since I personally faced the flaws in this system some time ago, I can afford to be skeptical of generous promises in this direction.

I found that those in need of foreign assistance are many times more than those who are hired as personal assistants.

These social workers receive yellow pennies for their hard and thankless work.

I wonder where our wretched country will now find the funds to afford this expense!

It is also not very clear to me, in the small provincial villages, where mostly elderly and sick people live, where will more personnel for personal assistants be taken from!?

Are we going to import them from abroad and who is going to be able to work this for 500 BGN a month!

I can't help but recall the chaos and inconsistencies that are the style of work in TELKs and NELCs.

Excuse me, but there are only quite a few elderly doctors working in the national commission, and in places none of the doctors want to deal with this wretched activity for no money, and in the end they appoint ... some doctors.

Until recently, these commissioners required every year immobile invalids, or patients with chronic long-term illnesses, to attend a thorough examination in the capital.

This was probably done in case someone paralyzed had walked in the meantime, another blind person had not regained sight, or the person without a kidney had grown a new one?!

They promised to change this stupidity last year, but de facto I don't know if it has happened to date.

I also think it is supremely cynical not to give people with dementia TELC,

because the disease was not included in some ill-conceived bureaucratic criteria, according to which such benefits are granted only to immobile people.

It is likely that these administrators in white coats have never encountered such a person and do not know what care is needed for him.

However, they and their relatives do not have the opportunity to watch, because they are not entitled to at least meager financial support from the TELK system.

And this disease in our geographical latitudes in recent years is gaining more and more dangerous proportions.

To top it all off, it turns out that if the relatives of such a person decide to take advantage of the specialized homes for the demented, then the patient himself, who generally does not know what world he is in, must be subjected to a series of humiliating examinations and finally to declare himself that he agrees to be accommodated in such an institution!

The topic is long, with an open end, because the problems have not been solved, but my word here and now is that the good intentions in our country, according to some vague bureaucratic rules, degenerate into a monstrous mockery of the sick, the weak and the people in need of help.

Or as some wise man once said, "Plans are just good intentions until they turn into hard work."

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