Project title: Improving the efficiency and access to health services at the General Hospital in Kolno
Beneficiary: Szpital Ogólny w Kolnie
Project value: 4 234 989.17 PLN
EU grant: 2 267 714.44 PLN
The hospital in Kolno has completed one of its largest investments in the recent years. It renovated the department and post-surgery room of General Surgery. Thanks to the grant from the Regional Operational Programme, the hospital renovated corridors, treatment rooms, post-operative rooms, social rooms and, above all, rebuilt and equipped patients' rooms with separate bathrooms.
As part of the project, the Department of General Surgery and the Sub-Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology were also renovated as well as post-surgery room of the General Surgery Department. Patients’ of the hospital in Kolno will be treated with modern medical equipment, which was bought within the project. The main objective of the project is to improve the efficiency and access to specialist medical services in the field of bone, musculo-joint and cardiovascular diseases.
This is not the end of changes in the hospital in Kolno. The Intensive Care Unit is to be opened there this year. The last procedures are in progress. Until now, the hospital did not have such a department, and patients who needed ICU care were transferred to neighboring facilities. Now they will have easier access to such care, which will significantly affect their safety.
Photo: Podlaskie Voivodeship Marshall Office
