520 Million HUF for Developing Emergency Care Services at Dorottya Hospital in Nagykanizsa24 February 2010
The development of emergency care services at Dorottya Hospital in Nagykanizsa will be implemented within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan from over 520 million HUF.
The assistance contract underpinning this development has just been signed. Thanks to funding provided by the European Union, Hungary is able to spend 481 billion HUF over the 2007-2013 period on healthcare developments, as an outcome of which patients will be ensured access to high standard healthcare services within reach in every region.
Through the series of calls aimed at raising the standard and improving the efficiency of emergency care services announced within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan, emergency care units at 26 hospitals in Hungary may evolve into European standard modern centres up to 2011 by investing 12 billion HUF; final, second-round decisions on funding have been made in the case of 20 of these hospitals. One of these is the Dorottya Hospital in Nagykanizsa where emergency care services will be upgraded by with the help of EU funding amounting to nearly 451 million HUF, the total cost of which development amounts to 520 million HUF. As an outcome of this development implemented with the help of EU and state funding, the feeling of safety may increase and the quality of life may improve for some 104,000 residents living in the Nagykanizsa, Letenye and Zalakaros micro-region.
Thanks to this investment, the institution in Nagykanizsa will be able to satisfy the emergency care services the hospital is required to provide as a central hospital. Once completed, the upgraded and suitably equipped emergency care unit treating 16,000 cases per year will provide ongoing, expedient, well-organised and efficient services around the clock for citizens. The range of services provided for patients will increase as an outcome of this development, i.e., beyond internal medicine and emergency care, surgery and trauma services, the hospital will also be able to provide maternity, gynaecological and paediatric emergency care services.
Some 700 applications submitted from Zala County in response to calls announced within the framework of the National Development Plan and the New Hungary Development Plan have been approved funding. This county has been granted EU funding amounting to a total of 120 billion HUF.