The new building has already been started by the children's hospital outpatient health center, whose symbol and recognition mark will henceforth be the orange deer, while from October 9 onwards patients will be welcomed into their new premises by emergency medical centre staff who will be found heading to the entrance to the blue crane. Ideas about what spaces should be like to visit children's hospital outpatients, children, their parents and staff would feel good, put together already 10 years ago. Thanks to funding from European Union funds, the building has been built and equipped in less than two years.
The environment also helps to get healthy –young children everywhere and always need their own toy world, including in hospital, but it is important for teenagers and young people to have vast spaces to find space for themselves. When designing and constructing the new building, there is a strong focus on improving patient experience, where epidemiological safety is the most important aspect. After years of pandemic, we've realised the importance of keeping a distance and being in vast, well ventilated spaces during the spread of acute respiratory infections. But joy helpsyou get better, too, and almost everyone, even the saddest visitors to the children's hospital, smiles as they walk past the new building, which is marked by stag and crane sculptures in its environment.
“I am pleased that as early as this autumn, with the opening of the new building, we will be able to provide patients and staff with a modern, epidemiologically safe environment and also expand the range of services. We have integrated not only a new approach to patient service, but also new facilities and exam capabilities into both the outpatient health center and the Emergency medicine Center. We purposefully develop the treatment process in such a way that the need to remain in the hospital diminishes. We knew how we wanted to make work more efficient, worked on it for a long time. We were able to build and equip this building in less than two years because we were ready for it when we received funding from the The Recovery and Resilience Facility Fund. Thank you for your support from your partners. Congratulations to all of us on the 125 th birthday of the children's hospital, which we officially celebrate on 2 October, and I wish the most important thing –good health, “says Valts Abols, Chairman of the Board of children's hospital.
In order to ensure the treatment process in the new building, new medical equipment has been purchased that is more responsive to modern needs, which will allow not only more accurate examinations, but also integration of data into the hospital information system, as well as objective comparison of the results of examinations in dynamics. Several examinations will now be possible for the smallest patients themselves.
'Children's clinical University hospital is the only institution to provide all types and levels of services to children, including sophisticated diagnosis and treatment, and has been a model of high medical quality for 125 years. Without timely and accurate diagnosis and high-quality treatment, the environment in which the patient resides plays an important role in healthcare. I am very pleased that the new children's hospital Centre for Emergency medicine and the outpatient health center Building, where more than 1000 small patients will receive health services every day, provides a child and youth needs-based environment for patients and modern equipped facilities for medical staff. This will improve not only the availability of health services but the experience of small patients and the wellbeing of medical staff,” Hosam Abu Meri, GOP Health Minister, is Hosam with the development of modern infrastructure.
In most of the new building, an outpatient health center will begin work in full already on October 2. The center's head, Irina Oseniece, emphasizes that a much easier patient's path at children's hospital is asignificant benefit when she arrives for an outpatient counseling or exam. In the new building, the outpatient health center, spread over 5,000 m2 of space, has a single receptionist, 84 rooms for visits, procedures and examinations, a state-of-the-art consilia room for doctors, as well as play and recreation areas for patients.
The Centre for Emergency medicine (NMC) has vast epidemiologically secure rooms over 2,500 m2 of space, a separate entrance and two receptionists that make it possible to separate patient flows. Single-seater wards have been provided for patients who will have to stay at the centre for some time. Specially equipped wards for patients with dangerous infections will ensure that these infections do not spread here. Parents of NMC patients will be able to park close to the entrance of the centre when choosing a drive-in from Indrika Street, with easy access to the needs of the Emergency Medical Service also provided. Children's hospital NMC will begin work in the new facilities on October 9.
The new building has a total area of nearly 8,000 m2 is the largest newbuilding built in a children's hospital this century. Author of the buildingdesign Martin Oshans SIA “architects of MARK”, construction supervisor SIA “P.M.G”, chief construction contractor SIA “Archers”.
'I am pleased that the ambitious project at children's hospital has been implemented swiftly and effectively. This will allow small patients and their parents to receive medical services in modern and attractive facilities, and at the same time it will be an equally important benefit and an improved working environment for hospital staff. Almost EUR 2 billion is available for Latvia from the Recovery and Resilience Facility Fund, of which approximately EUR 150 million is earmarked for strengthening the healthcare infrastructure of universities and regionalhospitals. Investments in 10 Latvian hospitals –3 clinical university hospitals and 7 regional hospitals, as well as improvement of infrastructure of 40 secondary outpatient healthcare institutions are planned. Thus, health institutions throughout Latvia willbe able to make better use of the latest medical technologies, significantly improving treatment outcomes and patient well-being,” says Zane Petre, head of the European Commission Representation in Latvia.
The total financing of the project is EUR 28 419 800. The building is being built with financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (EUR 10 319 800) and the The Recovery and Resilience Facility Fund (EUR 16 000 000), as well as funding from the The Recovery and Resilience Facility Fund to equip the building with EUR 2 100 000.
The equipment for the new building has also been helped by donor support.
'This beautiful new building embodies the care of children's hospital colleagues and also the public in Latvia for our children and their health, where not only is the quality of medical care important, but also the well-being of the child and the elderly. This time around, much of the more than 330,000 euros invested have been donations from individuals. I very much hope that the people and businesses who support children's hospital are pleased and happy with what has been done together today! "admits Liene Dambina, chairwoman of the Board of the children's hospital Foundation.
