Temporary hospitals cost over PLN 500 million. Why are they standing empty?

There are only 420 coronavirus patients in temporary hospitals. This means that a small fraction of the available beds are occupied. The total sum spent on organizing these facilities – a total of PLN 515 million – per patient, gives a huge cost of stay – writes the Polityka Zdrowotna website.

1. Temporary hospitals, created during the coronavirus pandemic, can theoretically accept 5,5 thousand. patients. Currently, 420 people are staying there
2. The total cost of building all 20 hospitals was PLN 515 million
3. The most expensive hospital is organized by the Ministry of Interior and Administration at the National Stadium – the monthly cost of its operation is PLN 21,5 million.
4. You can find more about the coronavirus on the TvoiLokony home page

Coronavirus in Poland – 1,2 million per patient

There are currently 420 patients infected with coronavirus in temporary hospitals – such information was obtained by the Health Policy service from the Ministry of Health. It follows that a few percent of the beds in these institutions are occupied. In provincial hospitals, the Ministry of Interior and Administration hospital at the National Stadium and the Ministry of National Defense hospital in Okęcie, about 6 are available. beds.

The cost of building (not all) temporary hospitals amounted to approximately PLN 500 million, so as it is easy to calculate, the price for one patient’s stay is PLN 1,2 million.

– I wonder why so few people are hospitalized in temporary hospitals, when entire hospital wards are annexed for COVID-19 patients, and patients with other diseases have nowhere to go? – says Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, an immunologist, in an interview with the Health Policy website. The expert gives the example of a hospital in Warsaw at ul. Stępińska, which has been transformed into a covid one, and there are few patients at the National Stadium.

Temporary hospitals – the huge cost of empty facilities

There are 39 temporary hospitals in Poland. Of these, 17 are active, and 22 are passive. According to the Ministry of Health, the average cost of building and equipping one temporary hospital is PLN 26 million – a total of exactly PLN 498 million 676 thousand was spent. 678 PLN. But this applies only to 19 hospitals established by voivodes, the data does not include the Ministry of National Defense in Okęcie, the National Hospital, which is the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, and 17 centers organized by state-owned companies.

As soon as they are no longer needed, temporary hospitals will have to be restored to their original state. The cost of the operation in the case of one facility will be from PLN 160 thousand. up to PLN 3 million.

The most important of the covid hospitals is the one located at the National Stadium, which is a branch of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration. According to the data of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariffs, the monthly total cost of running the National Hospital is PLN 21,6 million, of which the management cost is PLN 624,4 thousand. zloty.

This is due to the very high rates that apply there. In November, MEP Bartosz Arłukowicz presented a document which showed that the National Hospital receives more than 1000 zł, for hospitalization with the participation of a respirator 4321 zł, and for the readiness of one bed per day – 822 zł. He compared it with the amounts received by an ordinary hospital – they were respectively 330 (or 630), 1154 and 100 zlotys.

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