Description
The target groups of the Healthcare Centre in Chełmno, including: medical and administrative personnel, pregnant women and women in their reproductive age, newborn babies, young married couples, families and relatives of pregnant women and young mothers as well as their children, the whole of Polish society and Polish economy. The issue has arisen in the Chełmiński District and in the town of Chełmno and it also concerns people from neighbouring districts. The following activities are planned under the project: refurbishment of rooms with equipment, fitting Wards with necessary devices and medical equipment, education and preventive medicine for patients of the Wards included in the Project, training for medical personnel The most important element of the investment part is the refurbishment of a Gynecology and Obstetrics Ward to provide female patients and their babies with safety and comfort.
Summary of project results
The main aim of the Project has been better health of newborns due to an extended availability of specialist preventive medicine tests and an upgraded standard of care of a pregnant woman by implementation of specific objectives: a decreased newborns’ mortality rate due to preterm labour, a reduced number of people in need of long-term treatment caused by defects undiagnosed during infancy, a diminished number of babies with serious diseases, adjusting current infrastructure to the needs and standards, refined skills and knowledge of personnel, broadened knowledge of parents-to-be, an increase in the number of medical tests and investigations, shortened average waiting time for medical services provided, shortened average age of medical equipment. The outcomes of the Project and information on this subject will be disseminated through Internet articles on the beneficiary’s website and leaflets distributed in hospital and district healthcentres. The investment part of the Project involves two types of actions: the refurbishment of rooms of the Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Neonatal Ward with the Unit in order to convert and modernise the rooms as well as the purchase of medical apparatus and equipment to the Ward. The completed refurbishment has raised the standard of stay and improved conditions in the Ward. Owing to the renovation, the layout of rooms has been changed which facilitates communication and a full implementation of the rooming-in system. The following programmes have been implemented: - an educational programme for parents expecting a baby and after labour concerning baby care in hospital and at home, - a preventive medicine programme of newborns' hip joints ultrasound scan [USG], - a preterm labour prediction programme by means of USG TV ultrasound, - Shantala Massage. The project involved conducting training sessions for medical personel. 36 People were planned to participate in the trainings, as a result 48 people were trained. The programme includes 4600 health services and educational advice. As a result 5793 health services and educational advice were provided. 1000 women in pregnacy were planned to benefit from programme, As a result 1169 women in pregnacy benefited from health services. The project involved the purchase of 45 pieces of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment and exactly that much was purchased.
Summary of bilateral results