The latest generation video laryngoscope was donated yesterday to the Clinic for Nervous Diseases at the “Tsaritsa Joanna – ISUL” UMBAL by ladies from the Council of Women in Business in Bulgaria (CWBB). The donation was initiated by the Alumni Club to the organization.

On behalf of the non-governmental organization, Mrs. Tsvetanka Mincheva, chairman of the Board of Directors of CWBB and CEO of Unicredit Bulbank, presented the donation. “One of the missions of our women’s association is to show young women and young people in general that they have a future in Bulgaria, and this is impossible without the provision of quality health care,” she explained.

Prof. Dr. Evgenia Vasileva, head of the Clinic for Nervous Diseases, thanked the ladies for the timely donation, which will facilitate the work of the doctors in the Nervous Intensive Care Unit at the clinic, where her colleagues are fighting for the lives of the most urgent patients. “Most of our patients have severe, life-threatening neurological conditions. With this donation, you are doing good for a lot of people,” she explained.

The Clinic for Nervous Diseases is one of the leaders in the country for intensive treatment of neurological diseases – comatose states, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, myasthenic crises, status epilepticus, cerebral hemorrhages, ischemic strokes, meningitis, encephalitis, etc. Here is one of the few places in Bulgaria where patients with Myasthenia Gravis are treated – a rare, neurological, autoimmune disease that mainly affects young people and is extremely difficult to control.

“The fight for the lives of some of the patients in our clinic has been going on for months. The video laryngoscope will be of great help in our work,” pointed out Prof. Dr. Vasileva. She did not hide that, as in many other places in Bulgaria, there is a shortage of resuscitators in ISUL, and the available staff are often forced to work overtime.

Mrs. Hristina Staneva, executive director of CWBB, who is actually the initiator of the donation, explained that she personally knows Prof. Vasileva and her team and is very impressed by their professionalism and dedication to work.

“I have always dreamed of such a video laryngoscope! It will be very useful to us when emergency intubation is required or we have patients with anatomical features of the respiratory tract, as it gives direct visibility to the vocal cords,” explained Dr. Izabela Trayanova, head of the Nervous Intensive Care Unit.

Prof. Vasileva, who is one of the most authoritative neurologists in our country, used the occasion to share that in order to be fully staffed, the clinic she leads also needs more artificial respiration devices, as well as an inhalation system for patients who were intubated. She expressed hope that other business organizations will be found which, like the Council of Women in Business in Bulgaria, will extend a hand to doctors in the name of patients’ health.