New Micro-regional Outpatient Healthcare Centre to Be Set Up for the 17,000 Residents of Sümeg Micro-region17 November 2009
The Sümeg Micro-regional Multi-purpose Association will be able to set up an outpatient healthcare centre costing a total of 355 million HUF with the help of EU funding amounting to nearly 320 million HUF made available within the framework of the NHDP Central Transdanubia Operational Programme.
A modern healthcare institution with handicap access will be created as an outcome of this development. The foundation stone of the institution was laid on 13 November.
The development of healthcare centres ensuring micro-regional tasks has also begun in several other settlements over the past few months. The main objective of these healthcare centres is to ensure access to suitable standard healthcare services for everyone, even in settlements where such services were not available earlier. Funding amounting to 21 billion HUF has been allocated for setting up modern micro-regional outpatient healthcare centres from the funding framework of 453 billion HUF earmarked for healthcare developments over the 2007-2013 period.
Such an outpatient healthcare centre will be set up in Sümeg with the help of funding amounting to 355 million HUF and by making use of EU funding amounting to 319 million HUF. The centre will provide services for approximately 17,000 people. The two buildings functioning as the site of the centre are currently in a rundown state and lack handicap access. This is why the key objective of this project relates to renewing buildings, improving hygienic standards and the technical state of these buildings and creating handicap access.
Outpatient services will be concentrated in the 820 m2 Kompanik Street site. New, state-of-the-art equipment will be installed in the surgeries, such as an ECG, an ear, nose and throat examination and treatment unit and equipment required in the new cardiology unit.
Modern services, such as diagnostics consultation, distance diagnostics, digital imaging, as well as infrastructure used for forwarding digital images will also be introduced in the centre as a part of this investment.