Description
The major problem for the hospital is the lack of modern equipment which directly influences the needs of the target group in the implementation of the healing process. The project aim is the provision of adequate hospital setting and warm atmosphere in the course of psychiatric medical services which ensures their quality.The specific objectives are: creating better conditions for life and work by improving the material and technical base, as well as improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic activity in working with patients with traumatic brain disease and dementia by updating the medical equipment. Through the project two inpatient psychiatric care units will be renovated, the medical furniture and equipment will be provided to support the timely diagnosis and treatment. The main beneficiaries of the project are the mentally ill people placed for inpatient treatment in the two wards (First Male and First Female), other persons with mental illness seeking the services of the hospital, medical and non-medical staff working in the hospital. The persons who will be directly affected by the project implementation are the families of the patients.
Summary of project results
By the implementation of the project, the quality of the healing process for the patients of State Psychiatric Hospital - Byala were improved. Better conditions for life and work at the hospital were set by renewal of the material and technical base there. Project funding provided renovation of First Male Ward and First Female Ward in SPH - Byala and purchase of modern medical equipment (dry sterilizer, single-phase defibrillator, ECG and EEG). The wards were equipped with 70 new hospital beds, 2 medical couches and 2 scales, 2 medical emergency cabinets, 4 stands for infusion, 2 multifunctional medical carts, 8 hospital linen cupboards, etc. Improved material and technical equipment contributed to the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in hospital treatment. Also, the project contributed to reducing the utility costs which is important for efficiency and better allocation of budgetary resources in the hospital. Delivery of new furniture and medical equipment improved significantly the living conditions of patients and the working conditions of staff. The new medical equipment contributed to a reduction of operating time with a patient, leading to more efficient timing of the medical staff and increase personnel productivity.
Summary of bilateral results