03.12.2021

WE CELEBRATE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Today we celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Globally, more than one billion people, or about 15% of the population, have some form of disability. According to NSI data, there are nearly half a million people in Bulgaria with a recognized permanently reduced working capacity or degree of disability. About 10,000 of them are children.

On December 3, events will be organized around the world to remind the need for effective change in the living conditions of people with disabilities. This is a day to support the dignity, rights and well-being of people with disabilities. It aims to support the discussion on the free and independent life of people with disabilities and their full participation in society.

December 3 has also been declared International Pesticide Day. It is celebrated at the initiative of international environmental organizations on the anniversary of the 1984 accident at a chemical plant of an American corporation in Bhopal, India, which killed more than 3,500 people and later about 15,000 died from diseases caused by inhalation of leaked toxic gas.

The first SMS was sent on December 3, 1992. The message read only: "Merry Christmas". And now you are probably wondering who wrote the first sms in the world. This is a software developer who sends the premature Christmas greeting on a mobile phone to the manager of one of the world's telecommunications giants.

Today, in 1967, the world's first successful human heart transplant was performed. It happened at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa by Prof. Christian Barnard, who transplanted the heart of 25-year-old Denis Darval, who died in a car accident, to 55-year-old Louis Vashkansky. Today, nearly 1,200 Bulgarian citizens in need of transplantation live in the hope of leading a normal life. They all expect a second chance at life, which is possible only through organ transplantation. Out of 28 member states of the European Union, our country ranks 28th in the number of transplanted people per million population. Due to the insufficient number of donors and the frequent refusal of relatives to donate the organs of the deceased, the Ministry of Health launched the National Campaign in Support of Donation and Transplantation under the motto "Yes! For life!". The aim of the campaign is to raise public awareness of the nature and importance of organ donation. The national campaign also emphasizes the need to talk about donation with our relatives - let them be aware of our attitude to the problem. In this way, in case of brain death, we will help them make a decision at a difficult time for the family. The last word is theirs! So, let's talk now. Let's say together: “Yes! For life!"