Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

President Radev inaugurates Mountain Medicine Academy

Photo: Lozenets university hospital

President Rumen Radev is to inaugurate a Mountain Medicine Academy at the Sofia Lozenets university hospital today. The initiative is taking place under the patronage of the Bulgarian president, with the aim of training specialists in specific fields of mountain medicine, in light of the launch of the HEMS air ambulance service. Yesterday, 30 March, Health Minister Assen Medjidiev signed an agreement on the delivery of medical helicopters with the Italian company S.p.A, with the first helicopter expected to be delivered in December. 

Bulgaria is expected to have air ambulance services by mid-2023. It is the only EU country without medical helicopters. 

Translated from the Bulgarian and posted by Milena Daynova



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Photo: Executive Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, archive

Programme in aid of persons wishing to settle in Bulgaria takes another step forward

The National Employment Agency is applying with the I Choose Bulgaria initiative under the Programme of Human Resources Development, the aim of the operation being to create conditions and incentives for the permanent settlement in Bulgaria of..

published on 8/8/25 4:52 PM

Inflation expectations for next 12 months rise among Bulgarians

The total consumer confidence indicator, or, in other words, consumers’ assessment of their economic future in Bulgaria and the current economic situation continues to fall, dropping by 4.7 points in July 2025, to minus 21.1 percent, National..

published on 8/8/25 2:41 PM

75,000 Bulgarians receive pensions from abroad

The National Social Security Institute pays 16,000 out of the total of almost 2 million pensions to Bulgarians abroad. The biggest number of Bulgarian pensioners lives in Germany – 4,100. There is one Bulgarian pensioner living in South Korea and one..

published on 8/8/25 1:20 PM