Towards higher level of patient safety and control of medical exposure in Bulgaria

摘要

Medical uses of ionizing radiation are the major man-made source of exposure of the Bulgarian population. The requirements of the International Basic Safety Standards for protection against ionizing radiation and the EURATOM Directive 97/43 were fully harmonized in the Bulgarian legislation and many actions have been undertaken for their practical implementations. In October 2005 new regulation has been enforced for radiation protection at medical exposure. A department for Radiation Protection at Medical Exposure was established at the National centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection in order to lead the practical implementation of the Ordinance. New objective requirements to radiological equipment were set and licensees were obliged to put into operation Quality control program. First Diagnostic Reference doses were given in 2005 based on the limited own experience from the First national survey in conventional performed in 2002-2003 within the Bulgarian-German twinning project. Further enlargement of dose surveys and improvement of RP practice at medical use of radiation were realized within the Bulgarian-Finnish Twining project "Strengthening of administrative structures for radiation protection and safety use of ionizing radiation in diagnostics and therapy".New radiation protection training programs for medical specialist were elaborated including recent knowledge on patient protection. Several national training courses with international lecturers were performed