The deputy minister of health Dr. Matey Mateev has handed his resignation in protest against “the campaign against leading Bulgarian neurologists in connection with the used by them methods for treatment with stem cells.”

Last Friday, the Ministry of Health announced that due to illegal transplantations of stem cells to patients suffering from complicated genetic and neurological disorders at St Ivan Rilsky Hostpital, the director of the hospital Assistant Professor Roumen Stoilov has been sacked.

“The problem with the stem cells is scientific, not administrative and it has to be resolved by the academics,” declared Dr. Mateev.