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The tenders of the Central Hungary Oncology Centre and the Jávorszky Ödön Hospital in Vác have been declared a priority project by the government, hence enabling the renewal of buildings, raising service standards and improving patients’ comfort, as well as the establishment of conditions required for cost-efficient operations.     
EU funding of 480 billion HUF in value has been earmarked for healthcare developments within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan to provide higher standard and more effective treatment and care in the period 2007-2013.

The economic development of Hungary and the strengthening of the country directly ties in with our physical and mental well-being and therefore with the standard of the healthcare system. This is why the New Hungary Development Plan treats healthcare as a priority area by earmarking funding of 480 billion HUF in value for the 2007-2013-period. EU funding will be accessible on an ongoing basis within the framework of the Regional Operational Programmes and the Social Infrastructure Operational Programme.    

Healthcare development is a general issue impacting the whole society, which beyond building renewal and improving comfort standards equally targets raising professional standards, procuring medical equipment, establishing conditions needed for efficient operations and creating equal opportunities in accessing services. Resources made available by the European Union, the government and local governments ensure that conditions underlying quality, efficiency and equal access will be fulfilled in the Hungarian healthcare system.   

The tenders of the Central Hungary Oncology Centre of the National Institute of Oncology and the Jávorszky Ödön Hospital in Vác were declared a priority project by the government at its meeting held on Wednesday, paving the way for the development costing a total of 8 billion Forints.  

The main building, as well as three other buildings will be renewed and conditions required for efficient operations will be established within the framework of the development implemented at the Jávorszky Ödön Hospital in Vác, which centre provides services for the residents of the Szob, Dunakeszi, Vác and Veresegyháza micro-regions. The quality and comfort standards of hospital wards will be improved by the end of 2010 as an outcome of the project costing a total of 2.3 billion HUF and implemented with the help of EU funding of 2 billion HUF: 6-bed rooms operating at present will be converted into rooms with a maximum of 5 beds and rooms will have adjoining toilets and bathrooms. In order to make operating conditions more efficient, energy use will be modernised, the external wall surface of the buildings will be insulated, windows and door will be replaced and specific treatment wards will be placed in locations that ensure efficient work flow among special connecting treatment units, as well as the opportunity to set up so-called matrix wards. A more efficiently operating hospital better adjusted to the needs of patients will be established as an outcome of the development implemented in a region where the population is on the rise.

The total costs of the tender submitted for the development of the Central Hungary Oncology Centre of the National Institute of Oncology is equivalent to 6 billion HUF. An oncological centre providing comprehensive services and treatment and satisfying the full set of criteria stipulated in connection with European comprehensive cancer centres will be established in the Central Hungary region as an outcome of the investment to be implemented by the end of 2010. A new diagnostics building, new outpatient building and new surgery block will be set up as a result of the development. The quantitative and qualitative indicators used to measure patient treatment are anticipated to effectively improve by re-organising specific units into blocks. The institute will be able to provide complex high standard services based on equal opportunity for cancer patients in the region.