Balgarianovinite.com In an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio aired on Sunday, caretaker Minister of Health Michail Okoliyski said that the public procurements for cervical and colorectal cancer screening tests will be investigated. Earlier this week, Okoliyski reported that significant overpricing had been identified in two public procurement procedures at the Ministry of Health.
The investigating bodies will be the Public Financial Inspection Agency and, if necessary, the prosecution service, Okoliyski specified. He said: “We have been waiting for years for a real screening test for human papillomavirus (HPV). We are not just talking about cervical cancer here. We are talking about diseases caused by HPV that also affect men, which is why we are trying to vaccinate both boys and girls. Through this screening, we can test hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians, both men and women.”
The Minister said that the investigation should check whether the tests correspond to the market price in other countries. He added: “We have hypotheses and data that such an offer from the Tsotsorkov Foundation, which conducted the previous screening for colon cancer that was widely successful, is eight times cheaper.”
Okoliyski stated: “The ministry needs to find out who made the decision to assign conducting the market research to an external member and how that happened. This should be a very serious procedure involving many people acting as supervisory bodies.” The Minister alleged that the overpricing was caused by somebody who wants “to have houses in Tuscany or somewhere else”.
The Minister reported that some investments under the Recovery and Resilience Plan may get lost. His Ministry is working in cooperation with Maria Nedina, the caretaker Deputy Prime Minister for European Funding, in order to try to save the investment in the State Psychiatric Hospital in Kurilo. If successful, the hospital will be transferred to a new building in Sofia. This investment may fall through because there are still two weeks left to finish renovations of the building. Public Procurements for Cancer Screening Tests to Be Investigated for Overpricing 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-01 16:17:42 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law