17 Mayıs 2025

Right of Reply from Pavel Andreev

Edit 15:10: Mrs. Evgenia Borisova has shifted the focus from her original post, in which she claimed/assumed that I was sharing money with hospitals and that I was organizing campaigns dishonestly. We now have a new post in which she invites me to a public debate with a medical law attorney and a professor of oncology. I don’t see what I have to debate with them, nor what they have to debate with me, because I work in fundraising and developing a software platform. Once again, I emphasize that each person chooses where and how to receive treatment themselves, and I can only help with organizing the campaign and ensuring the proper and timely disbursement of funds, according to our rules, which are explained to everyone before a campaign is approved.

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EDIT 11:51 AM: The lady in question is DELETING all the comments you leave. I believe the case is officially closed.

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Hello, friends!

In the photo you see Evgenia Borisova. Yesterday I heard about her for the first time from posts (I leave a link at the end of the post), which she published about me with a number of statements she calls “her opinion”. I’m confused about what exactly to comment on, because she initially says it’s just an opinion and she has no evidence, then says she speaks with facts, but at the same time her post was edited many times (deleting and/or correcting her posts and comments), and she also deletes/hides comments under it, which altogether gives me the impression that she’s not very sure what she’s doing.

The work I do is extremely delicate and emotional and it’s easy to manipulate the opinion of people who don’t think critically or who are not deeply familiar with the specifics. Also, I’ve been working with the platform for many years and I’m used to constant attacks on my name and authority, to all sorts of lies being told, and to being frequently inspected by various state authorities. I’ve accepted that this is part of the price I must pay to do what I do.

In her post, Evgenia Borisova makes the following claims/insinuations:

1. That I have an arrangement with Turkish hospitals to issue inflated offers for treatment and to pay me under the table a portion of those funds
2. That we approached the organization of Silvia’s campaign incorrectly and that in doing so we are misleading donors and at the same time stealing the money

I am giving my public statement, which I am ready to defend live on all TV stations, radios, podcasts, and anywhere else if the media decide to cover my point of view:

1. Regarding point 1. -> I categorically, firmly and with hand on my heart declare that NEVER and with NO HOSPITAL in the world have I had a verbal or contractual (written) agreement with them to pay me cash (under the table) or by bank transfer sums from the funds for the treatment of beneficiaries. NEVER and with NO HOSPITAL in the world have I had an agreement to inflate treatment costs so that there is “something for me”. All the statements described by Evgenia Borisova are LIES and DEFAMATION! Also, I want to clearly and precisely state that private hospitals all over the world are CORPORATIONS with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in annual turnover and Pavel from Bulgaria is a tiny speck of dust to them. In her post, she also claims that we “work” with all Turkish hospitals in this way. The facts are that yes, we do have professional relationships with hospitals all over the world and they consist of the following activities:
   • communication between financial departments for the following purposes: 1. in case a payment is requested from a beneficiary to a hospital or to an account of a hospital we have not paid to before, we request confirmation of the validity of the bank details; 2. in the course of the beneficiary’s treatment – it often happens that payments are required at the last moment and the beneficiary arrives at the hospital before the funds have been received in the account of the medical institution. In these cases, we send a so-called SWIFT document through which we prove that the money has been paid and the beneficiary can be admitted for treatment; 3. In cases of death of the beneficiary, when the funds must be returned to us and respectively be recorded back in their campaign and redirected by their family to other campaigns.
   • communication between our fundraising department during a launched campaign and hospital staff working directly with patients: it often happens that beneficiaries start their campaigns under stress and in a hurry, without documents, traveling, in a country where they don’t have internet, and in these cases we request confirmation from the hospitals that these people are indeed being treated there because our communication becomes difficult.
   In her post the lady shares that the hospital told her that they “worked” with us. I’ve clearly and precisely described above what exactly our work with them consists of. People who start a campaign with us find us through the word-of-mouth channel. We are recommended by people who already have campaigns with us, donors, and sometimes hospitals because they know we are a reliable and fair partner.
2. Regarding point 2. -> Professional organization of a fundraising campaign requires it to be formatted properly. The components of a campaign with us are photos, descriptive part (text), target amount. 95% of the campaigns come to us in a state where they will have no success and this is part of our job. Let me go into more detail:
   • photos – the photos of each campaign must show the person before and after the illness, as well as depict the everyday life of the beneficiary or more precisely their family, children, wife, grandchildren. This way the donor can emotionally connect and gain insight into the life of the family.
   • descriptive part (text) – the purpose of the text is to describe the person’s life before the illness (for example: profession, life path, ambitions) and in an EMOTIONAL and DETAILED way to let donors into their life. If the text is NOT EMOTIONALLY prepared, the campaign is doomed to fail. Even when it comes to children.
   • target amount – in the context of oncology treatment abroad, amounts like 10,000 euros for a COMPLETE treatment cycle DO NOT EXIST. I don’t know how many campaigns this Evgenia Borisova has organized, but we’ve organized THOUSANDS and there is NOT A SINGLE campaign for cancer treatment that has cost UNDER 100,000 euros! On the contrary – treatments cost MANY TIMES MORE, REGARDLESS OF THE COUNTRY. Also, in one of her comments (if it hasn’t been deleted) she shares that she underwent such treatment and paid 100,000 euros in Turkey.
   Getting into specifics about Silvia’s campaign, which Evgenia Borisova refers to. She launched a campaign with us and it was literally in a “fragmented state”. The photos were not appropriate, the text was not well prepared, and she initiated a campaign for an amount that WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING in the context of cancer treatment abroad. What my colleagues did follows all best practices, I approve of it, and it is as follows:
3. We gave advice on the proper selection of photos. The photos that Silvia ultimately AGREED to provide and make public are NOT appropriate in our opinion, but we respected her choice.
4. The initial text with which she submitted the campaign to us was short and inappropriate. My colleagues, together with her, rewrote it and she APPROVED the campaign text.
5. We gave advice from our experience regarding the target amount – I EMPHASIZE again that for oncology treatment in any country in the world, 10,000 euros is an amount that is impossible to be sufficient!!! The target amount that was ultimately SET and APPROVED by Silvia is 76,694 euros. In my opinion this is also an amount that will not be sufficient for the full treatment cycle. (My opinion is based on campaign experience) Why do we ALWAYS advise families to start with a higher, but NOT too high amount? Because when the campaign is published for the first time it gets the biggest response and the best chance for financial success. Every next time when more and more money is requested leads to financial failure. If the approach is to collect 10,000 every few weeks, the campaign will certainly be financially UNSUCCESSFUL! All our campaigns follow the rule that if they end successfully (with recovery) or unsuccessfully (with death), the remaining funds are transferred to other campaigns or returned to donors upon request.

Let’s get specific regarding payments and the claim that we “delayed” payments and other insinuations. It’s extremely important to emphasize that payments with us are processed through a system (user profile), which every beneficiary receives for their campaign, everything is documented black-and-white and in the case of approval or refusal of payment there is a trace and reason. More specifically: for Silvia’s campaign, from a target amount of 76,694 euros, 19,909.41 euros were raised. Of these, 4,531.03 euros were available and unspent at the time of this post. There have been a total of 9 payments on her campaign. Of them, only 1 was refused and the reason was that my name appeared in the payment document, instead of Silvia’s. A few days later the document was corrected and paid. There is a payment of 7,500 euros to a hospital and in the document it states that it is for medical oncology tests, radiation oncology tests, other radiological tests, PET scan, blood tests, tumor markers, consultation with a pathologist, and NGS tests. In her post, Evgenia Borisova claims that according to her calculations, the treatment would cost about 10,000 euros. Abroad, for cancer treatment, these are “hello” amounts. Whether we like it or not – that’s the reality. Also, in the comments (if she hasn’t deleted it) she herself shares that she was treated for such a disease abroad and paid 100,000 euros, but at the same time thinks that Silvia’s treatment would be 10,000 euros. The remaining funds were also transferred via pro forma invoices to a pharmacy for medication (around 4,400 euros) and the rest for stay, travel, and translation services and everything was paid directly by pro forma to the respective service providers.

I want to STRONGLY emphasize that the commitment WHERE beneficiaries get treated and track the costs is entirely theirs. We as a platform and I personally DO NOT CARE, as long as I can pay the funds based on a pro forma invoice directly to the medical institution. Moreover – when people come to us for a campaign, they’ve already chosen a specific hospital and conducted their conversations, as well as checked prices in several other hospitals. We never have and I have no intention of controlling how much treatment costs, because that is the task of the beneficiaries – they must find the best treatment worldwide at the best price for them! Also, it makes no sense for a third party to determine the prices of private clinics. The proper logic is that beneficiaries should monitor their expenses very carefully, because it is just as important for them as the treatment itself. Also, all people treated abroad at some point get to know each other and discuss treatment prices. It is absurd to claim that I make HOSPITALS inflate prices!

In summary and in conclusion:

The name and brand PavelAndreevORG is a standard of safety, reliability, and correctness. I turned this sector 180 degrees, made enormous long-term efforts and I will not allow tension to be created and Donors and those in need to be discouraged! Money is a very important factor for our existence, but what I have is not a platform, not money, not social channels and audience, but a NAME. The platform operates not only in Bulgaria but also in other countries and with my head held high I say that we are Bulgarians. I’ve lived through a similar “scandal” in another country and in past years I’ve had countless similar public cases. From day 1, when I started, I have worked openly, honestly and stood with my face, and when needed I’ve gone public and spoken. That’s what I’m doing now. For me, it’s not about winning every campaign at any cost. For me it is important to take care of the donor community around me, working under strict and clearly defined rules.

Respectfully,

Pavel Andreev

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