The application submitted by the Provincial Hospital for the Nervously and Mentally Ill in Bolesławiec has passed the preselection stage. The facility now has until mid-December to submit the formal application. The hospital has a good chance of receiving PLN 3.8 million in funding from the Regional Operational Programme. Director Mariusz Put intends to renovate 10 hospital buildings so that they meet European Union standards.
As part of the renovation work, floors, among other things, are to be replaced. The project also provides for the modernisation of treatment rooms and the water and sewage network. The investment is worth more than PLN 8.2 million. “The remaining money will come from funds previously allocated by the Marshal’s Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and entered in the multi-year investment plan for 2007–2013,” Mariusz Put told the IstotneInformacje.pl portal. The remainder will be a small contribution from the hospital.
Some media reports—fortunately from outlets with limited readership and viewership—suggested that the district hospital had wasted an opportunity by failing to submit an application to the Marshal’s Office for an Emergency Department. “Emergency medical services are not financed with voivodeship funds,” explains Dariusz Kwaśniewski, a member of the Board of Bolesławiec County. – “There is no money there for an Emergency Department. Submitting such an application would have been a professional error. If anyone claims that the hospital and the county authorities neglected any actions needed to implement emergency medical services projects, they are mistaken and demonstrating complete ignorance.”
This year, the Bolesławiec healthcare facility, with the assistance of the County, will submit two applications for emergency medical services funding—to the national Infrastructure and Environment programme. The hospital wants to obtain funds to purchase ambulances, complete construction of the Emergency Department and equip it with the most modern equipment. Moreover, in accordance with the multi-year investment plan adopted by the County Council, the healthcare facility submitted an application to the Regional Operational Programme. If the facility receives the money, its computerisation will be carried out. “It will help manage the hospital rationally and effectively,” Kwaśniewski emphasises.
The district hospital is in good condition. This year, in the “Rzeczpospolita” ranking, the facility took 89th place among the best Polish public hospitals (7th place in Lower Silesia). In October this year, the healthcare facility obtained the ISO 9001:2000 quality certificate. During the last session of the County Council, the county governor Cezary Przybylski said: “The hospital’s achievement of this extremely prestigious mark is a success for the entire staff. It proves that favourable organisational changes are taking place at the healthcare facility, contributing to the creation of good conditions for providing inpatient, outpatient, emergency and medical diagnostic services.”
The county governor also informed everyone gathered in the conference room that a dialysis station would open at the district hospital in spring 2009. “We managed to negotiate favourable terms with an external company,” Adam Zdaniuk, director of the district hospital, told the IstotneInformacje.pl portal. Importantly, treatment would be provided under an agreement with the National Health Fund. “At present, patients suffering from kidney diseases are transported to centres outside the area,” Zdaniuk added.
(ii report)