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Physicians, Other Medical Staff in Bulgaria at End-2015 - Statistics

Sofia, June 17 (BTA) - The number of physicians per 10,000 persons of the total population at the end of 2015 was 40.6 and the number of dentists per 10,000 persons of the total population was 10.5, preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute show. The number of physicians per 10 000 persons of the population by regions varied from 26.2 to 54.6 per 10,000 and the highest values of that indicator were registered in regions with medical universities and university hospitals. Higher values than the average for the country were registered in the following five regions: Pleven (54.6 per 10,000 persons of the population), Sofia (49.1), Plovdiv (48.1), Varna (46.9), and Stara Zagora (44.0).

The lowest values were registered for the regions of Razgrad (26.2 per 10,000 persons of the total population), Dobrich (26.7), and Pernik (26.8).

According to the preliminary data of the NSI the number of health establishments for hospital aid at 31.12.2015 was 348 with 51,933 beds, with 322 of them hospitals with 49,028 beds. The number of out-patient health establishments was 1,915 with 1,044 beds and other health establishments numbered 136 with 2,394 beds.

Health establishments for hospital aid include hospitals, dermato-vene centres, mental health centres and complex oncological centres. The total number of these health establishments remained unchanged and the hospital beds increased by 428, or 0.8 per cent in comparison with 2014.

The number of hospital beds at the end of 2015 was 726.0 per 100,000 persons of the total population. The highest values of that indicator were registered in districts Plovdiv (936.5 per 100,000 persons of the population), Gabrovo (863.7), Smolyan (856.6) and Lovech (818.3), and the lowest - in Yambol (339.2) and Pernik (380.2).

According to the preliminary data of the NSI at the end of 2015 there were 29,039 physicians in practice under labour contracts at health establishments. Dentists numbered 7,513, including 6,746 of them had with labour contracts with the National Health Insurance Fund. The number of the practicing dentists increased by 500, or 7.1 per cent in comparison with 2014 entirely due to the increased number of dentists working in practices that had signed contracts with the NHIF. Medical specialists on 'Health care' who worked on labour contracts at health establishments numbered 47,349, including 30,972 nurses and 3,278 midwives.