MISCELLANEOUS MEDICAL INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: January 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na
tiopal Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 493 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Bulgaria
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Medieal Information
PLACE ACQUIRED
Medical Education
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1. Only, 200 students enrolled in the medical school of the University of Sofia in
1953i as compared with 300 in 19521 550 were graduated in 1952. The number of
medical students has decaraased because of the low salaries of physicians as well
as the appointment of physicians to remote villages. Only 100 students enrolled
in the Plovdiv medical school in 1953, and the university administration author-
ised 200 students from the agronomic course to transfer to the medical course.
Students are now admitted with "credit 3," i.e. sufficient, whereas ankh higher
grades were previously required,,
2. A graduate physician may not choose his lace of employment but is assigned by
a special committee of the Ministry of Health. Students admitted to the medical
schools in 1953 hairs bee#a warned that they will "be liable" for work in the field
of hygiene after graduation. Although physicians of the Ministry of :Defense and
the Ministry of the Interior are not responsible to the Ministry of Health, the
Army and the Ministry of the Interior are allotted the physicians they require.
In September 1953, eighty young physicians were sent to the officers' school in
Turnovo for a 4-month course* in 1952, two hundred doctors were appointed to the
Army.
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6.
7.
Hospitals and Drug
There are blood barks at the Aleksandrovska, ISUL (Institut za Spetsializatsiya
i Ust rshenstvuvaane na Lekarite Kadri; Physicians' Specialization Institute),
and _Military Hospitals in Sofia. Other hospitals receive the blood they require
from the Aleksandroveka Hospital. Natrium Citri is used for the preservation
of the blood in the banks. Direct transfusions are carried out at every hospi-
tal.
8. The hospital at Pernik (now Dimitrovo) has 420 beds. A new hospital with 500
beds is being erected in Pernik and will be ccmpieted by 1954. The building is
financed by the Ministry of Health but is claimed by the Ministry of Defense.
Dibazbl is, administered for lumbago, angina pectoris, polio, and other paralyses.
This drug can be obtained without difficulty. According to various physicians,
the effects of Dibazol are not as miraculous as published.
Medical Data Given to Lecturers of the Communist Party
1.0. There are 265 hospitals in Bulgaria$ the number of beds is four times larger
than in 1939. They include 132 village and small town hospitals with 2,000
beds9 38 tuberculosis hospitals with 6,000 beds, 1,130 dental clinics, and
1,900 medical personnel (physicians, dentists, and nurses) attached to industrial
enterprises.
11. Vaccination against tuberculosis has been administered to 900,000 children.
12. A periciilin factory is being erected at Ruse and will start production in 1954.
According to the head of the Medical Supply Section in the Pharmacc-logl.c De-
partment of the Ministry of Health, this enterprise will produce 10 times the
present requirements of the country.
13. The budget of the Ministry of Health is 180,000,000 lava.
Salaries of Medical Personnel
14. The following are'monthly salaries of personnel in medical institutions=
Phyeiciansa+'Heads of departments,
laboratories, dispensaries 600 640
680
Dentistsa Heads of departments
and clinics 600 610 680
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Sehi.ority inMedical Profession
5year s 2 -years Y :a years
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10 ears Over 10 years
Senior general practitioners 5%0 600 660
General practitioners 5110 580 6140
Dentists 480 540 600
Nurses# laborat? ?y workers 380 412 140
15. The head of a municipal dispensary receives an additional 60 lava per month. The
BOsd of a Bono SL lAge hospital receives an" extra 60 lava per months, and the
head of a,~,zone ,.11aga ttanei s : axi. io 1J nl p~ ~ rantsh.
16. The'following are monthly salaries of heads of medical institutions (*apitals)
in cities and industrial towns:
N'wnber of beds
35 7
1500
250
400 Ov
er 600
Head physician 680 720
760
640
920 18
000
Acting head
physician -
610
720
780
880
Acting head
of clinic -
610
720
780
880
Acting head
Pis
administration -
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58,
620
680
17. The fo11c .ng m=thly allowances are given:
a. One child p 12 leva;
b. Two childrenp 28 leva;
c. Three children.. 56 lava;
d. Four childrenp 96 lava;
e. Five children:, 136 lava; and
f. Additional children, 48 lava each.
18. The following are monthly salaries of personnel in town and village pharmacies,
with educational requirements for the position:
ucation Salar
y
Head of pharmacy high 560-800 leva*
Assistant head of pharmacy high 600-611 leva*
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Educe Salary lu,s Senio
s 10 ;s More
"Magistr" (Master Pharmacist) high
WOMA Af tri 11 A nkn7man-V secondary
pharmaceutic 500 oVJ o4V
secondary
pharmaceutic 380 1412 4140
Assistant pharmacist
*The salary is tied to the number of prescriptions and general turnover of the
pharmacy.
19. The following are monthly salaries of personnel in pharmacies attached to hospi-
tals:
$eniorit
rs 16 years
over 10 rears
Head of pharmacy,
Head of pharmacy (assistant
580
620
r.
680
pharmacist)
1420
1480
520
Medical Re6Elations in Municipal and
t Hospitals
following regulations are in effect in municipal
General pract3 m,a s: T.B., surgery,
gynecology, ears throat and nose,
contagious diseases (adults)
General practitioners: Nervous
diseases, contagious diseases
(children), urology, pediatrics,
psychiatry, stomatology
500 5140 .fieo
and d1w5 t hospitals t
one physician for 25 beds
one physician for 20 beds
c. Psychiatry (du11) one physician for 140 beds
Venereal diseases and pediatrics
(children over three)
Physicians in laboratories and X-ray
Physicians in physiotherapy
Physicians visiting patients at home
one physician for 30 beds
one physician for.150-180 beds
one physician for 250 beds
one p ioian for 1t, 000 to
5,000 inhabitants (:~Lndustrial
town)
one physician for 5,000 to
7,000 inhabitants (non-
industrial town)
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Ministry of Health
21. For medical administration, Bulgaria is diirided into 14 districts, sub-districts,
zones, and points. Large cities have their own separate medical network,
directly responsible to the head of the district medical administration. The
Ministry of Health controls all these medical organizations through the intOr-
mediary of terrc?itorfi.al controllers. The district, sub-district, zone, and point
physicians are appointed by the appropriate municipal committee but must be con-
firmed by the Ministry of Health.
22. The following is the legend for the sketch of the breakdown of the Ministry of
Health, pages 8 and 9 s
Ministry of Health
Advisory Committee
Committee of Specialists
Scientific Committee
1. Supreme Sanitary Inspection.
2, +2 Baeterriloaexlal: G tftl Institute.
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5.
6.
7.
8.
90
10.
U.
Water control inspection.
Pity of air control inspection.
Soil control inrampection.
Town plann:Ing inspection.
Foodstuff control inspection.
Inspection Zr 2health planning in industry.
Transpor b control inspwation.
Rest home control inspection.
Industrial enterprise control inspection.
12. Sanitary Branch.
13. Sanitary Section.
. Accommodation control.
1 . Foodstuff hygiene.
16. School hygiene.
17. Anti-Epidenia Section.
18. Epidemic.
19. Malaria.
20. Disinfection.
21. Vaccinations and sera.
22. Personnel (cadres).
23. Planning.
24. Prophylactic Medicine Branch.
25. Town Hospitals Section.
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26.
Village Hospitals Section.
27. Prophylactic medicine.
28. Administrative control.
29. Planning.
30.
Assistance to Workers in Enterprises Section.
31.
Anti-Tuberculosis Section.
32. Tuberculosis hospitals.
33. Prophylactic (tuberculosis).
311. Methods.
35?
Stomatology Section.
36. Venereal diseases.
37. Psychiatry.
38. Oncology.
39. Sport control.
40. Planning.
1:L. Personnel.
142. Mother and Child Branch.
1a3. Medical Assistance to Children Section.
44- Medical service in schools.
45? Prophylactic institutions (children).
46. Pediatric institutions.
47, Mother Section.
48. Maternity Assistance.
49. GynecologLoal assistance.
50? medical Ed. +att Branch.
51. Methods Committee.
52. High Education Section.
53, Specialization Section.
54, Planning.
55, secondary medical education.
56. Personnel.
57, Financial Planning Branch.
58. Rationalization Commission.
59. Mobilization Section.
60. Administrative Economic Control Section.
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61. Planning Section.
62. Planning of medical production.
63. Planning of personnel network.
64. Building Section.
65. Comani.ttee of Specialists.
66. Techrrical department.
67. Building control and planning.
68. Building.
69. Upkeep.
70. Legal department.
71. Health Education Section.
72. Organization and Control Section.
73. Organization.
74. C ontrol.
75. Complaints.
76. Medical Statistics Section.
77.
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Methods.
Research.
Control and research of work of personnel.
Discussions on epidemics.
81. Treasury Section.
82. Central Accounts Department.
83. Fina'mcial.
84. Budgets.
85. Prices (medicines).
86. Staff establishment.
87. Medical D mg Production Branch.
88. Pharmacies Branch.
89. Points and Health Resorts Branch.
90. General Supplies Branch.
NOTE: Numbers 87 through 90 are autonomous aazd have their awn budgets.
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