Bulgarian Medics Save Lives in Libya

byan rebels man the pick-up truck mounted machine guns as they prepare to fight Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi's forces, some 40 km from Ajdabiya, Libya, on 14 April 2011. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Bulgarian medics still work in the Libyan town of Ajdabiya, which is currently besieged by forces loyal to embattled strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

Mariya Arnaudova, Dimitar Kyuchukov and Dimitrina Kancheva are the three Bulgarians left at the Ajdabiya hospital, which look after the many badly injured soldiers, who are being transported to it every day, the Bulgarian BGNES news agency has reported.

Since 1992 the hospital has been managed entirely by Bulgarians, with some 350 Bulgarian medics having been engaged in it through the years.

Eleven years ago, six Bulgarian medics were arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in Libya on the basis of the false accusation that they had infected Libyan children with AIDS on purpose.

Meanwhile, on Friday, US, British and French leaders said in a joint letter there can be no peace in Libya while Muammar Gaddafi stays in power. NATO and its partners, they said, must maintain military operations to protect civilians and maintain pressure on Colonel Gaddafi's government.

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