EU funds for the Maribor Emergency Ward
Ljubljana, 21 September 2012 – Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, as the Managing Authority for the EU structural funds and the Cohesion Fund, approved the project Maribor Emergency Ward. The project includes construction, crafts and installation works and the purchase of equipment. The purpose of the investment is to assure the conditions for hospital emergency service, including the merger of primary and hospital emergency service. The Emergency Ward will assure overall constant service of emergency medical care in one place, namely, by improving diagnostic and therapeutic treatment. The overall value of the project, which is co-financed in the framework of the Operational Programme for Strengthening Regional Development Potentials for the period 2007–2013, is 14,14,0441 Euros. European Regional Development Fund contribution amounts to 7,563,930 Euros.
The objective of the investment is to assure spatial conditions to implement the activities of emergency medicine which is needed for the activity of a modern emergency ward. Its establishment will ensure a faster, more efficient and accessible and financially sustainable treatment of emergency acute states for a wider area of Štajerska. The investment will also contribute to shortening the time needed to treat patients and consequently improve the results of treatment and increase the organisational efficiency and the implementation of activities (merger of three emergency services, shortening the transportation routes).
The possibility of shortening the length of stay, the duration of waiting to be treated and minimizing the danger of hospital infection is also related to improving the effectiveness and quality of services. On the average patients’ access time for travelling between Maribor Health Centre and the Maribor University Medical Centre is shortened by 12 minutes, which has an extensive effect on the chance of survival of those whose life is most endangered.
It is foreseen that by improving the quality, accessibility and faster treatment of emergency acute states the realisation of the project will enable the preservation of 10 lives per year (the assumption reduces mortality for 0.0001 per cent) and prevention of 8 cases of permanent disability (a 0.0008 per cent reduction of the probability is foreseen).
The investment contributes directly to the objectives of the Operational Programme for Strengthening Regional Development Potentials for the period 2007–2013, priority axis Economic development infrastructure.
The Ministry of Health is responsible for the implementation of the project. You can find more information at http://www.mz.gov.si/en/.
