On Wednesday, a branch of the Radiation Therapy Department of the Lower Silesian Oncology Center started operating in Legnica (Lower Silesia). Annually, it will be able to serve almost a thousand patients. Until now, all patients had to travel to Wałbrzych or Wrocław for treatments.
Maciej Kozioł, spokesman of the Lower Silesian Oncology Center in Wrocław, told PAP that the branch in Legnica cost PLN 10 million and was equipped with a new tomograph for PLN 1,5 million and two modernized accelerators for radiation.
The most complicated radiotherapeutic procedures will still be carried out at the parent unit in Wrocław, but the remaining treatments are already being carried out in Legnica. We plan to serve over 900 patients a year – added the spokesman. He emphasized that the new facility is an element of the development of the radiotherapy network in the Dolnośląskie Voivodeship.
The branch in Legnica consists of a radiotherapy department and a radiotherapy clinic in which radiotherapy specialists and radiology technicians work.
The facility is a joint project of the Marshal’s Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and the Lower Silesian Oncology Center in Wrocław. The local government provided PLN 6 million and DCO contributed PLN 4 million.
Annually, DCO performs over 80 thousand. radiological research. It accepts over 33 thousand. patients in wards and over 117 thousand. patients in clinics. (PAP)