site.btaParliamentary Committee Discusses Psychiatric Care System Issues and Challenges

Lack of personnel, lack of young doctors, low pay, poor equipment are part of the problems in the psychiatric care system, and Bulgaria is in last place in Europe in terms of number of psychiatrists, said Dr. Vladimir Nakov from the National Centre for Public Health and Analysis during a meeting of the Temporary Parliamentary Committee to Protect the Rights of Mentally Ill Patients and to Draft Legislative Changes to Safeguard Them. Nakov cited data from a monitoring of psychiatric care in the country carried out in 2023, the purpose of which is to establish the structure of psychiatric treatment facilities, as well as the needs for psychiatric care.