A bow to the rescuers: BLS celebrated the day of salvation
This year, the tradition was respected and at 12 o'clock. Doctors, healthcare professionals and other medical staff, went to the doors of hospitals in the country. All of them kept a moment's silence and with the sirens included in the ambulances, they honored the memory of their fallen colleagues in saving human lives.
Wreaths and flowers were served in Sofia, in front of the Medical Office to the Military Medical Academy. The event was attended by the leadership of the Board of the BMA, the Ministers of Health and Defense, representatives of the Presidency, the Ministry of the Interior, the Mayor of the Sofia Municipality, the Bulgarian Red Cross, CITUB, the Labor Code "Podkrepa" and others.
"The Day of Salvation" was established in 2005 at the initiative of Dr. Totko Naydenov, editor-in-chief of Bulgarian Doctor, with the support of BLS, MMA, MH, Bulgarian Red Cross and the unions, in honor and memory of memory 26-year-old Dr. Stefan Cherkezov, who on August 15, 1963 saved 47 people from a blazing bus and died from his severe burns.
The names of over 130 doctors and 20 nurses killed during work are known, mainly after heavy midnight surgery, ambulance crashes, and after infection of the diseases of their patients. The lists also include police, mining rescuers and ordinary citizens who have lost their lives, rescuing other people.
For the third year, "The Day of Salvation" passed under the sign of Covid-pandemia, and the names of more than 120 doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers were added to the black lists, who until recently helped the patients with coronavirus, but lost the battle For your own life.
