NON-CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE IN BULGARIA: CURRENT STATUS

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NON-CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE IN BULGARIA: CURRENT STATUS

Journal Title: Българско списание за обществено здраве (Bulgarian Journal of Public Health) - Year 2011, Vol 0, Issue 1

Abstract

The aim of the current article is to make an overview, based on the existing information in regional health centers (RHCs), on both of non-conventional services legally proposed within healthcare system and of human resources within the field of non-conventional healthcare as a major emphasis is placed on the existing problems. Despite that over the period of 2008-2010 there was a tendency for growth in the number of practitioners registered in RHC for practicing non-conventional medicine methods that have a reasonable effect on human health, their number by 15th September 2010 was extremely insufficient – 166 practitioners, of them 98 are Master’s in Medicine or Dental Medicine, while 68 are practitioners gaining other speciality within the healthcare system. The delivery of non-conventional services by legal providers to citizens in the country still remains insufficient. By 15 May, 2010 in 9 RHCs within the country (approximately one third of the regions in Bulgaria) no practitioners were registered for practicing non-conventional medicine, at the same time in the whole southwest region no registration of individuals practicing non-conventional methods was done. The best provision to the population in the country with providers of the homeopathic method (by the end of December 2008 1666 masters in Medicine and Dental Medicine acquired training in homeopathy), who are not obliged to be registered in RHC for method practicing. A leading place according to the number of registered practitioners in RHC for using non-conventional medicine occupy methods like “non-conventional physical methods”, “acupuncture and acupressure” and “using non-medicinal products of organic origin”. The number of masters in Medicine and in Dental medicine, which is registered in RHC for non-conventional practice, with the exception of “nonconventional physical methods”, prevails above the number of other medical specialists. In 2008 in 3 RHCs 4 individuals were registered for practicing of non-conventional medicine methods that are not allowed to be applied in our country. In Bulgaria it is not foreseen the compulsory training on the application of different non-conventional methods. At the present moment practitioners without medical education, so-called “healers” do not have the right to practice non-conventional treatments that is why they have practiced them illegally as the number of citizens who make an appointment and go to their practices is significant. There are no data available for the costs made by the population for this “non-conventional” healthcare. In order to respond to the needs of the Bulgarian population with regard to the provision with non-conventional methods influencing human health and to guarantee safety and certainty to the citizens by providing them with these services it is necessary for the law-makers to undergo actions for the amending and supplementing of the legislative organization for the application of non-conventional methods in the country.

Authors and Affiliations

Iliana Yaneva-Balabanska

Keywords

non-conventional treatments Bulgarian healthcare system regional health centers

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