A block with 12 operating rooms and a central sterilization room was opened on Friday at the Provincial Specialist Hospital in Olsztyn. The investment, which is the largest in health care in Warmia and Mazury, cost PLN 68 million; the EU subsidy amounted to PLN 45 million.
As Irena Kierzkowska, director of the facility, said at a press conference, the opening of a modern operating theater means a new era and new development opportunities for the provincial hospital in Olsztyn.
We will be able to perform treatments and surgeries that we have not performed so far, offer quality treatment at a truly European level, we want to compete with other recognized Polish medical centers – added the director.
The new wing of the hospital houses a block with 12 operating rooms. They can be operated at the same time, because each of them has its own medical facilities. The rooms are equipped with specialized equipment needed to perform surgeries and treatments, including ophthalmology, gynecology, orthopedics, neurology, oncology. In the operating block there is a room with 17 stations for waking patients up after surgeries, there are also rooms for patients susceptible to infections.
The hospital has also acquired a central sterilization room in which the equipment used in operations will be disinfected. The sterilization room is fully automated, and the equipment and tools used during the operation are identified in detail. Thanks to modern technology, it will be possible to reconstruct who was operated on with a specific set of tools and who was responsible for their preparation for the next operation.
Director Kierzkowska added that the provincial hospital in Olsztyn wants to specialize in transplantation and interdisciplinary surgery. Currently, the doctors of the provincial hospital perform kidney transplants, but efforts are underway to ensure that the facility can perform liver transplants. Specialists from Olsztyn will also seek the possibility of performing interdisciplinary surgeries. The idea is to perform procedures on different organs simultaneously during one operation. This will be beneficial for the patient as he will not be burdened with multiple treatments; will be operated on only once.
Currently, the Provincial Specialist Hospital in Olsztyn performs 30 operations a day, after the launch of a modern block, the number of operations will increase to 60 procedures. 70 percent patients who are operated on in the Olsztyn provincial hospital are patients in the so-called acute conditions: after traffic accidents, heart attacks and strokes. (PAP)