Prof. Ivaylo Turnev, the Discoverer of Lom's Disease, Conducted Training of Health Mediators in Burgas

Prof. Ivaylo Turnev, the discoverer of Lom's disease, conducted training of health mediators in Burgas.

Friday, 28 July 2017

One of the leading neurologists in our country, Prof. Ivaylo Turnev, conducted training of healthcare professionals and health mediators in Burgas at the end of last week. This is the second such training within the framework of the Integrated Project for Social Inclusion of Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups in the Municipalities of Bourgas, Sredets and Malko Tarnovo funded under the ZWU program. Professor Taranev's choice is not accidental. In addition to a brilliant expert and a physician, a discoverer of the genetic disease in the Roma called Lom's disease, he is also chairman of the Minority Health Problems Foundation. For years Ivaylo Turnev has been working on this subject. He told health mediators and specialists that his first contact with Roma was at the discovery of Lom's disease in 1994. After that, he became aware of the problem, he traveled to the country and met various groups of Roma. And they are not the same, says Ivaylo Turnev. In a village there may be five different Roma communities - with different cultures, beats, and different diseases. The health status of the Roma, their specifics, the health policies that improve the access of vulnerable groups to healthcare were among the topics that affected Prof. Taranev. "Studies on the health status of Roma neighborhoods have shown very poor trends, very high incidence of infectious diseases and a much higher mortality rate, much lower immunization coverage, it is important to

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organize adequate and effective prevention programs," says Ivailo Търнев He explained that one of the most important factors for working with Roma is to explore them, he stressed. When their credibility is deserved, when you show that you are familiar with them, then it will be easier to work with them and to organize the preventive activities, the expert added. The training took place within the framework of the Integrated Project for Social Inclusion of Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups under the ZVW Program, Swiss Support for the Social Inclusion of Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups, funded by the Bulgarian - Swiss Cooperation Program. Project partners are Sredets Municipality, Malko Tarnovo Municipality, Regional Roma Union Foundation, Hristo Botev Primary School in the Pobeda district of Burgas and OPH Media Foundation. For more information, please follow the ZOV Program website: Http://zovprogramme.bg/bg Follow us on Facebook too: Https://www.facebook.com/ZOVProgramme/ Contacts: Marian Ivanov "OFP Media" Foundation Expert "Community Information Co-ordinator" Mobile: 0889/822 729 [email protected]

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