1. MEDICAL EDUCATION 2. CLINICS, HOSPITALS, AND INSTUTUTES 3. EPIDEMICS

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• Publication Date: July 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
1e Medical Education
2. Clinics, Hospitals, and Institutes
3. Epidemics
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THE SOURCE RV'ALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DMINITIVI.
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Medical Education
1. Akad.m ya Mediteinska Vt'ilko Chervenkov# the Medical Department of the University of
Sofia, has 4#000 to 5#000 students. The students are all members of the UDNM
(Dimitrovski Syv,s na Narodnata Mlademhj Dimitrov Union of the People's Youth), all
non-meo~nberm having been removed in 1918-1949. in 1944-19!8# the number of new ad.
missions was unlimited, but now only 300 to 400 new students are admitted each year.
Students. appllring for admission must pass an entrance examination, but it is believed
that social origin and political 'beliefs are the main criteria. The following
documents must be attached to the application forms
a. Autobiograpbyt
b. A recommendation from the Communist youth organimationj and
o. A letter certifying occupation, social origin, place of employment, and fathersm
Politics.
2. Since 1950# military studies have been part of the ourrioulum of the Medical
Academy, starting with the third year of medical studies. The Chair for military
studies is held by a lieutenant colonel. Daring the summer of 1951, after six
months of theoritioal~studies, all students went into practical training. However,
in the summer of 1952, this was discontinued following the publication of a law under
which high school graduates are required to have military service on the same terms
as .all other citimens, i.e. three yearly of service in the infantry or four years of
service in the artillery#'Air Force# or Navy.
3. On finishing studies, doctors may not choose their place of employment, but must
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ther practice or specialise at a plane selected by a committee composed of a
professor of the Academy, two representatives of the Ministry ofHealth# the secretary
of the Party cell of the Academy, and the manager of the Academy Cadre Department.
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The Medical Academy has a 2-year course for nurses. Students must have completed
five years at a secondary school to be granted admission to the course.
5. A training school for midwives is located on Kiril i Metodi Street in Sofia. The
course lasts three years, and students must have completed secondary education before
entering the school.
6. In addition to these regular courses, the Ministry of Health arranges courses for
medical assistants, laboratory aides, specialized courses for doctors and nurses, etc.
every year&
Clinics,Hoepttale,. and Institutes
7. There are more than 30 clinics in Sofia. All citizens receive free medical care
at the clinic in their district. The only document required at the clinic is a
registration card bearing name and address (Adresen Bilet). Medicines prescribed
by the doctor are purchased and paid for by the patient. Antibiotics, PAS, vita-
mins, and other expensive drugs must ueually be bought on the black market.
8. Clinic No. 7 at No. 1 Miladinovi Brothers Street, near the central railroad station,
has 15 doctors and 12 nurses. It has the following departments:
a. Internal diseases;
b. ChildteAtsc disemrads;
c. Surgery;
d. Gynecology;
e. Eye and throat diseases (open twice a wnak); and
f. X-ray.
9. Large industrial enterprises employ their own doetcre? Workers at the factory may
go to these doctors for treatment.
10. The ISTJL (Institut ea Bpatsializatsiya i Vs~vdrshenstvuvane na Lekarite Kadri;
Physicians Specialization Institute) Hospital (formerly Rabotniaheska Bolnitea;
Workers' Hospital) at No. 8 Bal.o More Street in Sofia, which has been a training
school for doctors since 1950, has 600 beds in the following sections:
a. Internal diseases, 180 beds;
b. Children's department, 70 beds;
c. Surgical departments, 200 bade, with 60 for the surgical department, 60 for
the urrological tdepat'tanent, and 80 for the orthopedic department;
d. Laryn:gology department, 40 beds;
We department, 30 beds;
f. Gynecolog department, 70 beds; and
g. There are no departments for nervous and infectious diseases.
11. The Vedinitelna Hospital on Kn shevo Road is the largest hospital for infectious
diseases & is _ part of the Aleksandro'iska Bolnitsa, the university hospital.
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12. The RIEM Institute (sic) on-General Zaimov Street in Sofia is the largesivbacterio-
logical institute and the main producer of serums in Bulgaria.
Epidemics
13. In:1951, an epidemic of poliomyelitis broke out in Pleven, where over 100 cases
were recorded. There were 10 to 15 cases of poliomyelitis in Sofia during 1951.
Patients were treated with Cylotropina imported from Czechoslovakia. This was also
produced by the Galennia Factory near Sofia.
14. There was an epidemic of scarlet fever in Sofia in 1952?
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