Akta Medika attended an International travel insurance conference in Athens, Greece November 2^nd to 5^th, 2009. Our representative, the only Bulgarian there, met with leading European and American hospitals and medical insurances.

A cooperation with many companies is established and will lead to the expansion of the international department at the hospital, which will be in charge of coordinating the care and well being of foreign patients. In cooperation with Baptist Health and University of Miami, USA our hospital will serve as a center for the Balkans as a prescreening and preparing of patients to receive medical attention in the USA. Local doctors will specialize and exchange experience with American physicians. This cooperation will lead to implementing American guidelines and high quality medical care in the treatment of Bulgarian patients.

A very interesting cooperation is established with medical insurances in the field of the medical travel, so called medical tourism. There is interest in treating patients form Europe and USA at our clinic. This will be financially beneficial for the patients and insurances and the patient will receive high quality medical care in an European hospital without the need to go to the Far East or Latin America.

Akta Medika actively continues the process of accreditation with JCI and establishes partnership with Turkish hospital – Anadolu medical center, which already has passed the accreditation. A team of our hospital will visit Istanbul this month on a work seminar.

There are some interests of foreign investments in our new project – Akta Medika Sofia. Our team will follow up with them.

A team of the Akta Medika administration visited Anadolu Medical Center, an affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hopsital in USA, clinic in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Todor Hinov MD CEO, Mrs Elena Uzunova, Manager, Dr. Hristina Kostadinova, MD Medical Director and Dr. Borislav Nikolov MD International Manager met with leading executives at the Turkish hospital on Nov 19, 2009. Presentations of the two hospitals took place and cooperation was discussed. The two hospitals will be partnering in JCI accreditation issues, patient treatment, doctors education, among others.

The Anadolu Medical Center is a multifunctional hospital with emphasis in Oncology (has a new generation gamma knife), In vitro fertilization, Cardiology, General Surgery, Traumatology, Neurosurgery.

Possibilities of joint operations were discussed especially in pre-care and after care of patients in need of more specialized medical treatment. Our new project – the rehabilitation clinic in the village of Stokite can be a wonderful addition to that cooperation.