We celebrate the day of salvation
On August 15, Bulgarians and Bulgarian medics will celebrate the day of salvation. On this day, we honor the memory of dozens of doctors and medical officers who died at work or immediately after it from exhaustion, infection of the diseases of their patients or an ambulance disaster on their way to them, as well as all the others who died in rescuing the victims S
Bulgarian Medical Association and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the professional organization Dr. Ivan Madjarov calls for the tradition and together with colleagues from the medical establishments to maintain a one-minute silence at 12 o'clock. .
The day of salvation was established in 2005. At the proposal of the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian Doctor, Dr. Totko Naydenov, with the support of the BMA, MH, MMA, BRC and the unions, in honor and memory of the 26-year-old doctor of the 26-year-old physician The Veliko Turnovo village of Sagittarius, Dr. Stefan Cherkezov, who on that date in 1963 saved 47 people from a blazing bus and died from his severe burns.
As of December 20, 2012, the celebration of August 15, as a day of salvation, was formalized by a decision of the Council of Ministers. Thus, Bulgaria became the only country in the EU, probably in the world that states the memory of its compatriots who died in saving life in peacetime.
For the next year, the day of salvation goes under the sign of Covid-19. Our disease took over 120 doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers who helped Coronavirus patients but lost the battle for their own lives.
