The maximum must be done for the security of the people. We see a complete failure of the Ministry of Health and the Minister. This is how the former director of “Pirogov” Asen Baltov commented to NOVA NEWS on the current situation in Bulgaria.
“I am not a member of GERB, but a civic quota. I plan to remain a doctor, despite the fact that I am now a candidate for MP. I will not stop practicing,” he said.
“The fact that I was a member of NIGHT and we tried to manage, this led to my dismissal,” explained Prof. Baltov.
“We have a minister who in no way spoke with the idea of protecting the people who will be vaccinated. He is running away from responsibility. The order belongs to the minister, not to Angel Kunchev or the expert council.
He must issue an order and give guidelines and policies. “Now there is a chaos that is deepening and we will not have the peace of Western European countries,” he said.
“Mathematicians have calculated that mortality is 13% higher than the second and third waves. You can’t justify the fact that governance was bad before and I can’t handle it. Things were done that were accurate and timely. The waves are not four, but three, and he lost about 2,500 dead. We currently have so many vaccines – 3 million vaccines in stock. By the end of the year, 1 million of them will not be on time. So far, they have been scrapped. 100 thousand vaccines.
Instead of making the most of them and letting people know that the vaccine saves lives, we do everything we can to dilute it. “The responsible behavior of a health minister is to influence and explain how important it is to get vaccinated,” Baltov said.
“In Norway, 100,000 Moderna vaccines were sold, in Bhutan another 100,000 were donated. I know it has stopped importing the company that people were worried about. At the moment, we are all waiting for an order for the third booster dose, but where is it? There’s no internal agreement to officially say, “Put it on.”
Kovid zones for me are an attempt to solve a problem that cannot be solved this way. A covid zone cannot work until 3 pm and not work on weekends. The fact is that some of the drugs that are said to be free are only 5 free. Minimal research is being done, “said Prof. Baltov.
“You know that in most countries there are green certificates that have come into force. 21% have been vaccinated with two doses and that is very little. If there were 50% there could be a critical mass to support this certificate. At the moment it will not lead to nothing good, “he added.
“We were looking at an austerity index, where certain measures gave austerity.
At the moment, I do not see any measures and what is the austerity index. If we have a 25% index of severity, when there were the heaviest covid waves, they reached 70% “, reminded the former director of” Pirogov “.
“We have more than 500 deaths in a few days. 3400 diagnosed today, adding 30% hidden morbidity, means that today we have 5,000 new infections. 20% of them will go to hospitals. This means that in the next 10 days we expect to have more than 7,000 hospitalized and more than 700 in intensive care.
This will be extremely stressful and difficult for my colleagues. We must have the timing to adequately treat all those admitted to the hospital. There will be a struggle for oxygen “, claims Prof. Baltov.
He said that in his opinion Bulgaria is not at the peak of the coronavirus.
“One of the reasons we are climbing slowly is that we have 20% vaccinated. The reproductive number is around 1.3, if it exceeds it, then we are at the peak. In the next 17 days, mortality will increase by 50%,” he concluded.
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