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Official ceremony takes place in front of Doctor's Monument in Sofia

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The names of over 550 military officers with medical training are inscribed on the Doctor's Monument in Sofia, where the traditional ceremony for the 143rd anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria took place.

Representatives of various institutions and many citizens bowed their heads in memory of the highly humane work of doctors, compassionate nurses and paramedics who died for the freedom of Bulgaria.
"We must not forget where our roots come from and we are obliged to pay tribute to the medical specialists who died for the Freedom of Bulgaria. We should not forget the feat of many of our colleagues who lost their lives in this last year marked by the pandemic, fighting to the last to save the lives of others", said Colonel Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Vassilev - Deputy Head of the Military Medical Academy.



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