Last December, the University Clinical Center entered a competition for funds from the Medical Fund. The results were just announced, and it turned out that we were one of the beneficiaries. We received a check for the amount of PLN 106,091,482.
It is worth recalling that the Medical Fund is a new initiative of the President of the Republic of Poland, established in cooperation with the Ministry of Health. The main objectives of this project are:
• Reduced waiting time for diagnosis and faster start of treatment for the youngest patients
• implementation of modern forms of therapy in pediatrics
• improving comfort during the stay of the child and his caregiver in the hospital.
More than 3 billion zlotys were allocated to the Medical Fund this year. So there was a lot to fight for. Twenty-three medical entities entered the competition. The grant was awarded to 14 of them. The University Clinical Center received 502 points for its project entitled: Strengthening infrastructure for the delivery of pediatric services in response to demographic and epidemiological needs. Implementation is scheduled for 2022-2024 and will be fully financed by the Medical Fund.
- Funding from the Ministry will bring state-of-the-art medical equipment to children's clinics UCC. For example, the Department of Pediatric Radiology will gain a multi-slice CT scanner, and the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantation will get an exoskeleton (an externally attached skeleton designed to enhance muscle strength). A bedside cardiac monitor with a dual-saturation monitoring module will be purchased for the Neonatology Department. The Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery will receive a state-of-the-art echocardiograph, and the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology will receive video gastroscopes, reports Izabela Wojcik-Kukla, head of the Director's Office UCC MUW. And she adds that, of course, these are just examples, mini-examples, of a very long list of specialized equipment that will be purchased for 20 of our units. In the overall list of medical equipment, we have several hundred items, among them X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, laboratory centrifuges, hospital beds, infusion pumps, inhalers... Whereas in the list of non-medical equipment, we have 77 items such as drip stands, tables, room disinfection equipment, scales, treatment carts, etc. With such a large retrofit, it will be possible to diagnose and treat children more effectively at UCC MUW. The conditions for young patients in the wards will also improve.
