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Elza Iskrova, Senior nurse at Blagoevgrad State Hospital

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Video. Aging Europe faces a serious shortage of health workforce

Updated: 07/05/2025 - 18:27 GMT+2

The European health workforce faces a severe crisis. Rapidly aging EU countries have an estimated shortage of some 1.2 million doctors, nurses and midwives. Lack of nurses is especially significant. Our reporter Julián López Gómez travelled to Bulgaria, one of the countries most affected.

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