Commercial League - Global Pharma Center, the investor in the private Mom and Me Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment, the establishment of which was approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday and caused much controversy due to political figures arguing that this project would hinder the construction of a National Children's Hospital, has issued a statement that they will not to create a pediatric department and will change the name of the hospital.
Commercial League added that the government's decision is legal and that neither the project nor the decision for the new hospital has the goal of creating some kind of "national private children's hospital".
"We remind the entire Bulgarian public that in Bulgaria there is a high general and record high child mortality and investments in health care are important in combating the demographic crisis and for the survival of the nation," the investors wrote.
"We adamantly and clearly confirm our unreserved support for the construction of a real national state children's hospital and that the creation of a modern multi-specialty hospital in Sofia, without a pediatric department, does not change this position of ours," they added.
Earlier on Wednesday, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev ordered the cancellation of the Council of Ministers' decision to establish the private Mom and Me Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment in Sofia.
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