In connection with the end of the preparation stage and the signing of the contract for the construction of the Integrated Paediatric Centre, the director of the hospital, Marcin Drozd, presented the next steps, which are to bring the youngest patients and their parents closer to a facility created from scratch with them in mind
– We are moving on to the phase of real action, i.e. launching tenders for the design and construction of the facility and, in the following years, for the supply of equipment and furnishings,” said Marcin Drozd, director of the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, during a meeting with journalists.- We will be looking for the best partners and contractors who will meet our expectations and ensure the highest quality of services. We will also monitor the progress of the work and ensure that it is completed on time and on schedule. Our aim is to put the Integrated Paediatric Centre into operation as soon as possible
The new paediatric centre, however, is not just a building and modern equipment. It is first and foremost a new concept of paediatric care, which cannot be realised under the current conditions of dispersed paediatric clinics
– We are making dreams come true,” stressed the rector of the Medical University of Wrocław. Prof. Piotr Ponikowski recalled that the idea had been born many months earlier. The concept that had been worked out was included in the project, which received a very high evaluation from the competition commission. – I am glad that today we are closing the formal part. We will not disappoint expectations. For us, the most important, final moment will be when we receive the first patient in the modern paediatric centre. Wrocław deserves an investment of this scale, I believe that it will be the first of many for the University Clinical Hospital and the Medical University of Wrocław – Rector Ponikowski pointed out
The Integrated Paediatric Centre as a building will be adapted in every detail to the new concept of treatment, according to which a child is to stay in hospital for exactly as long as is medically necessary
– A key element of the new unit will be a day ward, which, thanks to its infrastructure and work organisation, will allow an increase in the number of services provided while at the same time reducing costs – This ward will not only be used for diagnostics, but also for many therapeutic procedures that can be carried out in this mode, such as therapies using biological drugs or hormones
– Doctors of various specialisations also need conditions for this in order to be able to cooperate with each other – emphasised Professor Leszek Szenborn, Head of the Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases Clinic of the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław. – The Integrated Paediatric Centre will provide us with this. Today we travel to different parts of the city for consultations, and thanks to the IPC we will meet every day at patients’ bedsides, for joint consultations, but also in the corridors. We will be able to establish all needs and the optimal treatment plan very quickly. The future promises to be great, but we are preparing for this future today. Already today, the paediatric clinics are integrating their activities so that when we enter the new building, we can start implementing our plan straight away,” explained Professor Szenborn
A very important addition will be the observation and infection area integrated into the centre. We were convinced of the importance of this by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and it cannot be ruled out that similar events will also occur in the future
The construction of the new centre will also allow us to expand into areas that university paediatrics in Wrocław has not had before. These new areas include paediatric interventional cardiology and the area of rare diseases, which is included in the health policy priorities for Lower Silesia. Paediatric neurology will also be added, which has not existed before and is essential not only for the area of rare diseases, but also for paediatrics as a whole, also for teaching reasons
The centre will be housed in a new five-storey building of almost 17,000 m2, located adjacent to the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Oncology and Paediatric Haematology
source, visuals: University Clinical Hospital / http://usk.wroc.pl
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