Bulgarian children with cancer have now one more hope for fighting the disease as country's health minister opened Friday the reconstructed and renovated Specialized Children's Hospital with oncological and haematological diseases.
The Health Ministry financed the whole renovation for the repair works and the purchase of new hospital beds, thus making it possible for Bulgaria to meet the need for transplantations, Minister Radoslav Gaidarski said.
In poor countries such transplantations cost between USD 125,000 and 150,000, head of the hospital Professor Bobov said a the opening.
Since the opening of the facility ten years ago, doctors have carried out 105 autological transplantations (using material from the patient) and 30 allogeneic ones (material is taken from a donor).