Development Worth Billions of HUF at the Healthcare Centre in Debrecen 1 June 2010
The 85 billion HUF programme, within the framework of which 8 pole hospitals will be developed, is the most significant NHDP healthcare investment to be implemented so far.
The Healthcare Centre in Debrecen is one of these pole hospitals, towards the development of which the EU has granted funding exceeding 10 billion HUF in value.
The University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Centre (DE OEC), which is the largest progressive leading institution in the region, currently operates in a pavilion-type structure, some of which buildings are in a considerably rundown state. This is what makes it difficult to introduce modern systems and working conditions and also has a significantly negative impact on sustainability.
The aim of this development, costing a total of 11.7 billion HUF to complete, is to create a modern, cost-efficient and sustainable medical services system by integrating and centralising therapeutic and diagnostics services. The way in which a system ensuring that DE OEC will be capable of flexibly responding to challenges tying in with the development of medical technologies, demographic changes and disease-related changes, in terms of diagnostics, medical treatment and training alike, will be created as a result of this development is a key consideration. Pavilions will be integrated into blocks; operational redundancies will be eliminated and patient transfer will be rationalised as a part of this development. Each of these activities contributes to setting up a more flexible, expedient and at the same time more patient-centric system.
Carrying out infrastructural developments is the main activity of this project. Among others, setting up the new Diagnostics Centre, introducing dental services and reconstructive dental surgery, providing dental services for disabled children, as well as integrated paediatric otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery at the centralised paediatric department are the main specific activities envisaged within the framework of this project. The burns and plastic surgery unit operating at the Department of Dermatology and the transplantation unit (where kidney and cornea transplantations are performed) will be developed. The paediatric emergency care unit and the central emergency care unit and oncohematology block will also be transformed. Infrastructural conditions in the Pathology and Criminal Justice Institute will also improve thanks to this development.
To summarise: the building will be extended by 17,375 m2 within the framework of this project; 11,809 m2 worth of floor space will be renewed and machinery and equipment procurements worth over 2.5 billion HUF in value will be carried out. As an outcome of this project, sustainable recycling will be ensured on an area of 3,037 m2 and the old 12,462 m2 building will be pulled down.
The population living in the North Great Plain region is the primary target group of this project, which residents will have access to the highest technological standard progressive healthcare services once this project is successfully completed.