Sun, Nov 08 2009
The Bulgarian medics who returned from Libya on July 24 have been today to the Military-Medical Academy hospital for full medical tests, Bulgarian National Television reported.
Their health condition could be serious, according to doctors there. Dr Zdravko Georgiev, husband of nurse Kristiana Vulcheva, was yesterday admitted to the hospital's emergency care unit with a hypertonic crisis and high blood pressure.
His condition has been stablised.
Head of hospital General Stoyan Tonev told BNT that the medics could suffer any number of medical conditions after spending eight years in difficult conditions. He said that the greatest risk may be psychological.
More on their health conditions will become known when all tests have been completed in the next few days.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
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