The Bulgarian Medical Union (BMU) said that the healthcare budget for 2008 should reach at least six per cent of the GDP.

Head of the organisation Andrei Kehaiov said that BMU would launch negotiations on the national framework agreement for 2008 as soon as June 2007.

Kehaiov said that Health Minister Radoslav Gaidarski should summon the Supreme Medical Council immediately to begin working on the health budget for the coming year.
 
BMU will hold an extraordinary summit to discuss the problems Bulgaria’s health sector is experiencing.

At the same time medics from Sofia’s Pirogov emergency institute continue protesting in attempt to get higher wages and better equipment.

Pirogov employees said that protests will be held on a daily basis, for an hour each morning. During that hour medics will take care only of emergency patients.