Five people were given a chance to live after being transplanted. The donor is a 15-year old boy from Plovdiv who has been declared brain-dead. Two successful kidney transplants were performed at Aleksandrovska Hospital in Sofia, the recipients are men aged 46 and 56. A 44-year old patient was given a kidney at the Military Medical Academy. The lungs and the heart of the donor have been given over to Eurotransplant. The organs were explanted at the St. George Hospital in Plovdiv by a German medical team from Munich and Berlin.
More than 10 folklore groups, cooks and artisans from Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece will gather at the "Balkantea" festival in Sozopol from 16 to 18 September. The event will be officially opened by the Mayor of Sozopol, Tihomir Yanakiev, at the..
More than 32,000 Bulgarian children in 43 countries on 6 continents will be heading for the 396 Bulgarian Sunday schools around the world registered for the school year 2024-2025. More than 2,000 teachers will be teaching them to read and write in..
Twenty artists will take part in the Lucky Hunt Sofia Graffiti Festival on September 14 and 15. They will spray over 1000 square metres in Sofia. The event is dedicated to pets and classic cars, say the organisers - the Sofia Graffiti Tour team in..
An unusual opening of the new school year was made by the students and teachers of the Bulgarian school "Asen and Ilia Peikov" in Rome and Florence. The..
A six-day handicrafts festival in Veliko Tarnovo kicks off the celebrations of Bulgaria's 116th anniversary of independence , reports BNR correspondent..
Bulgarian Folk Dance Club "Chemshir" from Armagh, Northern Ireland, will participate in the program of "Culture Night" in the city of..
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