Trud daily informs on Wednesday that all Bulgarian hospitals are obliged as of November 1 to take fingerprints of their patients. The registration takes an average of 10 minutes in Bulgaria’s biggest hospitals. No queues were formed on the day of the official introduction of the system of fingerprint identification. Standart daily informs that if patients refuse to identify themselves with fingerprints upon entering hospitals, they have to pay for an alternative registration. The National Health Insurance Fund is yet to decide what type of alternative registration method to introduce.

Bulgaria’s cabinet is to spend over EUR 4 billion in two months, Capital daily writes on its first pages. The state budget surplus has reached EUR 1.72 by end October, which is 3.8% of the country’s forecasted gross domestic product. Therefore, the cabinet will have an extra EUR 4.15 billion to spend by the end of 2016, the newspaper further comments.

Sega daily informs on its first pages about the report of the Bulgarian National Bank related to the impressive growth of the bank profits in Bulgaria. The author of the article points out that taxes and commissions have become very important for Bulgaria’s commercial banks in times of decreasing interest rates and already form 20% of their revenues.

Director of the Center of Middle East Studies Mohd Abuasi told Trud daily that 15 imams from the Grand Mufti’s Office in Bulgaria preach radical Islam in the mosques and that terrorism threat comes from Bulgarian nationals, rather than from foreign citizens. According to Dr Abuasi who is an expert in topics related to Islamic Fundamentalism, the radicalization of the Bulgarian Muslims is supported by the newly-established DOST party which has close relations with the Turkish security services, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and was also supported by the Muslim Brothers, as well as by the salafi and wahabi movements in Bulgaria.

The printed media also report on the large-scale rescue operation of thirty four year-old Bulgarian Miroslav Kyosovski who went missing a  week ago in the Balkan Mountain range. On Tuesday 24 Chassa daily announced that nearly 400 soldiers, policemen, rescuers and volunteers joined the operation. A military helicopter also took part at the operation. The rescue teams searched an area of over 50 square kilometers. On Wednesday mountain rescuers continue their search.