The first tender package targeting healthcare with a funding framework of nearly 35 billion HUF has been published on 30 October31 October 2007
A total of 25 billion HUF is available for local governments in micro-regions with a population of over 13 500 where developments targeting the establishment and development of new micro-regional outpatient healthcare centres will be implemented.
EU funding of 6.4 billion HUF has been allocated for the development of outpatient services replacing hospital services, primarily in the area of surgery, gynaecology, internal medicine and paediatrics. In addition to these, EU funding of 3.5 billion HUF has been allocated for the development of the ambulance dispatch system of the Hungarian National Ambulance and Emergency Service as a priority project.