Emergency Care Services at Szent-Györgyi Albert Hospital Clinic in Szeged to Be Developed from 700 million HUF 7 April 2010
The development of emergency care services at Szent-Györgyi Albert Clinic Centre in Szeged, costing a total of 700 million HUF to complete, will be carried out within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan with the help of EU funding amounting to over 600 million HUF.
Hungary has the opportunity to invest EU funding amounting to 481 billion HUF in healthcare developments and co-financing such developments over the 2007-2013 period. These investments contribute to ensuring patients’ access to high standard healthcare services within reach in every region.
The investment to be implemented in Szeged with the help of funding amounting to nearly 700 million HUF made available by the New Hungary Development Plan is a part of the programme within the framework of which emergency care units in 26 hospitals around the country will evolve into European-standard modern medical centres by investing 12 billion HUF. The feeling of safety and quality of life may improve from 2011 in the heart of Csongrád County for 350,000 residents as an outcome of this development.
Modern medical equipment, as well as IT equipment helping to efficiently inform and treat patients will be installed in this institution undergoing renewal. This upgraded and suitably equipped emergency care unit will provide ongoing, expedient, well-organised and efficient services for patients. Thanks to this investment, the institution will be able to satisfy the emergency care services the hospital is required to provide as a central hospital
So far, 2400 applications submitted from Csongrád 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 324 billion HUF.