Central
The central government is responsible for:
- Ensuring equality in using health services;
- Providing accessible and qualitative health care, with priority for children, pregnant women and mothers of children up to one year;
- Priority of the health promotion and the integrated prophylactics of diseases;
- The prevention and reduction of the risk for the health of the citizens from the unfavourable effect of the factors of the living environment;
- Special health protection of children, pregnant women and mothers of children up to one year of age and handicapped and mentally disordered persons, and
- The state participation in financing activities aimed at preservation of the health of the citizens.
- National Health Card
- Strategies and evaluations
- Medical standards and regulations.
Regional
Regional health inspectorates (RHIs) (‘Регионални здравни инспекции’) implement national policy on the district level. As divisions of the central level, they do not have formal competencies.
District authorities are responsible for:
- The control and implementation of the statutory health requirements;
- The infectious diseases control;
- Health promotion and the integrated disease prevention;
- Laboratory control of the environmental;
- The monitoring, assessment and control of noise in urban territories and public buildings, of pollutants in foods, and of potable water;
Local
Municipal authorities are responsible for:
Carrying out sanitary-hygiene and anti-epidemic activities to protect the environment from pollution, to provide hygienic conditions for labour, life and leisure of the population, and to prevent diseases, and
The co-financing of certain types of local hospitals and clinics.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry of Health
Regional Health Inspectorates implement public health policy in the districts of the country.
Sources
Zakon za Zdraveto (BG) [Health Act], last amended on 9.04.2020.
Zakon za Lecebnite Zavedeniq (BG) [Medical Facilities Act], last amended on 24.03.2020
