COVID-19 – общо заболяване или професионална болест за медицинските специалисти?
COVID-19 – A COMMON ILLNESS OR AN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE OF MEDICAL SPECIALISTS?

Summary/Abstract: In social security law, the COVID-19 disease may constitute a social risk insured against when it occurs in an insured person. Depending on the connection with the person’s labour activity, this disease may represent a common illness or an occupational disease. As for medical specialists whose function is to treat patients with COVID-19, the risk of occupational disease is realised because of the causal relationship between the harmful factors of the working environment and the disease-causing damage to heath. A disease can be recognized as an occupational one even where it does not explicitly form part of the list of occupational diseases as the system of identifying occupational diseases which is introduced in Bulgaria is a mixed one.

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