Description
The main problems of health care are limited access to hospice care for children caused by the lack of premises, difficulties in providing treatment due to lack of rehabilitation and medical equipment, poor quality of care provided for children in state palliative, caused by the lack of specialized knowledge and skills. The objective of the project is to increase access to health services and its quality for the terminally and chronically ill children from region Podkarpacie. Project will improve the quality of palliative care 145 incurably ill children by organizing 163 training sessions for the personnel, extension of hospice building, which will allow to create 28 more places for incurably ill children care by purchase of rehabilitation and medical equipment. The project delivers 350 trained persons of medical personnel. The surface of the hospice will be increased to 3044,64 square meters. The project also expects to print 6000 handbooks for parents of terminally ill children and to purchase 13 pieces of medical equipment.Terminally ill children and their families are the target groups.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project - improving public health and reducing social inequalities in the access to health care services in the long-term care of a dependent person and chronically ill children from the Podkarpackie Voivodeship has been achieved and the following rates has been realised: One modern building with an area of 3076,99 m2 was built, where two hospice children's departments were set up together with the necessary technical infrastructure. 41 rooms were equipped with the necessary equipment (337 items, including 13 pieces of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment).42 new jobs have been created, and this results in an increase in the number of patients benefiting from improved health services to 198, including 129 rural patients.Specialized courses, placements of medical personnel, training in social competences and training of medical volunteers took place. 175 training sessions were held, 1040 participants completed the certificate of completion. Continuous psychological care was provided to families for 19 months. A handbook – ‘How to cope with chronic illness and disability of a child’ (6000 pcs) was published. A conference under the auspices of the Faculty of Medicine of the UR entitled ‘Heart and Reason (…)’ was held. It was attended by 150 representatives from 25 hospices from Poland. Promotional meetings were held in 25 districts of Podkarpackie Voivodship, printed newsletters (100 000 pcs) and information brochures (200 000 pcs), a 30 day outdoor campaign (30 billboards, 150 advertisements and 100 B2 posters) were carried out with the Internet support and articles in the local press (9 pcs).Project subpage was launched, 200 leaflets and posters, 200 sets of gadgets (pens, folders, etc.), announcements in the local press as well as 3 press conferences, an investment information board and at the end of the project a commemorative plaque with information on co-financing from EEA funds and Norwegian funds were realized. The project was not implemented in a partnership with a Polish or foreign institution. The Beneficiary did not benefit from the support of the Bilateral Cooperation Fund.
Summary of bilateral results