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National Health Insurance Fund has a financial reserve: NHIF director

Prof. Petko Salchev
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The proposed increase in the funding of the clinical pathways for infectious diseases will stimulate the infectious units.

Prof. Petko Salchev, director of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) stated, in an interview for the BNR, that “each hospital will decide for itself how to absorb the additional money.” In the words of Prof. Salchev, the NHIF has paid for the PCR tests thus far, with estimates of up to 2,500 tests a day. He stressed that the NHIF has a financial reserve.  



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