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Tag: investment
Automatic self-aligning defibrillator, which controls the heart rate, was for the first time implanted in East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Košice. This kind of device was first commercially used in October last year in France. Defibrillator automatically adjusts the parameters, which have been until now adjusted only by the less accurate echocardiography test.
Faculty hospital in Banská Bystrica opened a new medical treatment rooms and also the newly established department of robotic surgery. One room is reserved for robot-assisted operations, which hospital, with the help of Da Vinci technology, provides as the only one in Slovakia. Hospital started with robot-assisted operations in March last year. Robot arms are controlled by the surgeon with the control console and video system.
Hospitals in Trstená and Liptovský Mikuláš have available new, more efficient CT scanners. These top diagnostic equipments reportedly improve the quality of examination and provide new diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. Computer tomography is used for radiological examination of the inside of human body and is important in diagnosing of various injuries and diseases. Modern multidetector computerized tomography reduces the radiation load of the patient and the amount of contrast medium in the body.
University hospital in Martin opened a new surgical pavilion. Its construction took two years and required an investment of approximately €15 million. The project was co-financed from the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programme Health. The participation of hospital was 5%. Pavilion has 92 new beds. According to Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik the new pavilion meets the latest stringent conditions of 21st century.
At the beginning of the year Children Faculty Hospital in Košice should have signed a contract for the reconstruction of its facilities worth € 11.8 million. However, public procurement, already declared, had to be cancelled. Public Procurement Office ordered the control of administrative procedure of the competition based on anonymous submission. Hospital is currently planning to re-start the public procurement procedure for the realization of the project.
L. Pasteur University Hospital in Košice will have a new pavilion, which will include the urgent reception, surgical reception, operating rooms, laboratories and the runway for helicopter. According to the spokeswoman of the hospital the construction of modern facilities will be financed from the non-repayable contribution in total amount of € 26.5 million within the frame of Operational Programme Health. The end of construction works is scheduled for February 2014.
L. Pasteur University Hospital in Košice, with the aim to improve the provision of intensive care, purchased 25 new docking stations with an infusion pumps and linear batchers. New generation of the pumps of type B. Braun SPACE represents an entirely new concept in infusion therapy because of the location of particular pumps and batchers in the common base, so called docking station. Stations will facilitate the patient care due to space-saving and mobile usage.
Operation Centre of Emergency Medical Service plans to invest more than € 3 million into the modernization of communication structure, operators will thus communicate more effectively. The Centre has concluded the contract for completion of infrastructure on January the 17th with Slovak Telekom on the basis of procurement without publication, ergo without public tender. According to spokeswoman of the Centre the public tender was not necessary and Centre allegedly followed the law on public procurement. The former head of the Centre claims that tender should have taken place and he also criticizes the price of the modernization.
Reconstruction of the operating theaters in hospital in Komárno is completed. Operating theaters will be inaugurated on January the 24th this year. Nitra region as the owner of hospital invested € 452 000 in the reconstruction. The operator of hospital, non-profit organization PROLIFE, provided € 200 000 for the internal equipment of the theaters. Hospital in Komárno serves for the attraction zone of 110 000 inhabitants.
Association of Municipalities in Vranov region raised € 12 200 in public collection for the hospital in Vranov. Proceeds from the collection will be used for the purchase of a new mammograph. Charitable fundraising for the mammograph, both from particular self-governments and from inhabitants of Vranov region, lasted from October to December 2011. Hospital is currently considering the kind of new device that will be purchased.
