Prague, Aug 20 (CTK) – The Czech government yesterday approved a plan for a 10-billion-crown strategic investment in seven hospitals directly controlled by the Health Ministry in the next five years, the ministry’s press section has told CTK.
The hospitals will cover 30 percent of the investments to be made in 2016-2020 from their budgets. Subsidies from the EU Structural Funds cannot be used for these projects.
Health Minister Svatopluk Nemecek said the investments will allow to reconstruct and modernise clinics and build new facilities in them.
The investments concern the university hospitals in Brno, Olomouc, Plzen and Hradec Kralove and three Prague clinics: the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Thomayer Hospital and the General University Hospital.
The highest investment of two billion crowns is to be made in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, where the surgery wards would be reconstructed. A new surgery department costing 1.5 billion crowns is to be built in Plzen, west Bohemia. The same sum is to be invested in a reconstruction of the central hospital building in Olomouc, north Moravia.
The planned construction of a new gynaecological and obstetrical clinic and the moving of other clinics to new premises of the Brno University Hospital would cost 1.95 billion crowns.
Prague’s Thomayer Hospital wants to build a new emergency reception centre for 0.8 billion crowns, IKEM would like to build two new pavilions for 0.75 billion crowns and the General University Hospital plans the construction of a new building costing 1.5 billion crowns.
($1=24.475 crowns)
