Bulgaria - no, no! Earth like a human palm… But everything is in Sofia! Even if you have to give birth… That's it. A baby died in an ambulance because it was born in the ambulance traveling from Sandanski to Petrich. Why does he travel? Because in the hospital in Sandanski, you can give birth only 15 days a month. On the other 15 days of the month, the doctors go to Petrich. Why does the hospital in Sandanski only work for 15 days? Because there is no staff? How is it in Petrich – the same. And he is born there only 15 days a month when there is a doctor. When there is no doctor, one travels. Where? To Sandanski? Why? Because on the other 15 days of the month the doctors are there.
few pregnant women in Sandanski… They give birth according to whether there is a doctor. But they had a term, it's biology, after all… It doesn't matter – there is a doctor in 15 days, your term matches, you win, you will give birth. The term doesn't match you… A problem. There is an ambulance and you travel depending on where the doctor is! If you make it, you make it. If not… There was an uproar over the case of the deceased child. Excuse me! Yes, it is a baby, just born. It is simply more correct to say that a Bulgarian died. He inhaled, perhaps, only a few breaths of air. God forgive him, the Bulgarian! But such is his fate. It should be born not according to human biology, but according to the schedule of doctors – are there or are they not. It's like that in the countryside. You pray that there will be a doctor, then he will pay attention to you, that he can cure you.
No staff - we know it. Their wages are low – we know it. They work in several shifts – and we know that. They are tired, they are nervous, they are tired. The patients, on the other hand, immediately rush into battle. Such is health care in the countryside. Somehow surviving. And when things get rough, when doctors feel insecure, overworked, when they want to insure themselves, when they feel helpless, they say: “Run to Sofia!“
And people run. Who how can. Because he is saved. Only to reach the cherished Sofia.
Soon a one and a half year old baby heard this. It is from the region of Blagoevgrad. A week of vomiting and confusion, they can't stabilize him. And finally he heard the cherished words: “Run to Sofia, because there is nothing we can do!“ And it fled to Sofia. It arrived quickly, they accepted it. They stabilized him and discharged him. Because there are hospitals in Sofia, and new ones are springing up like mushrooms. Has Sofia already become the personification of Bulgaria! Got up. Because you run to Sofia for everything. And what's left of…
Bulgaria
Earth like a human palm…
But I don't need a bigger you,
I am happy that your blood is southern,
that your old Balkan is made of flint.
Georgi Jagarov