Description
Identified key problem: the number of births in the Opole Voivodeship is the lowest one in Poland. The project objectives are first of all: To enhance the quality of health care of newborns requiring intensive therapy; to increase the availability of and improve mother, pregnancy and newborn care; to increase the access to natural nourishment, especially for premature newborns. The project objectives are to be pursued by means of improved and new healthcare services (hospital treatment and outpatient clinics); collected human milk; organisation of a conference; staff training. The project is planned to lead to a higher number of naturally fed newborns in the country, thanks to an opportunity to use the newly established Human Milk Bank; a higher number of births in the Opole Voivodeship; a decrease in the number of neonatal period complications in the Opole Voivodeship. The target group includes women in reproductive age, new born babies (including premature newborns), parents of hospitalised newborns and infants, hospitals having obstetric and neonatal departments in their structures, hospital staff and conference participants.
Summary of project results
The reason for applying the EEA and Norway grants were progressing birth drop in the Opolskie Voivodeship, as well as the entire country. Project goals: improvement of perinatal care quality, i.e. provision of services in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pregnant women, fetus and newborn was achieved. The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of Children and Newborns was rebuilt. The aim of the undertaking was to modernize and adapt the branch to the current standards and requirements, improve the conditions of stay of small patients and the work of medical personnel. Thanks to the project, we created the possibility of permanent presence of parents or guardians during the entire stay in the hospital and the inclusion of parents of newborns to the healing process through the dissemination of the so-called "kangaroos", which consist of keeping the child in a position close to the vertical in direct contact with the skin of the parent. For the needs of the creation of the Milk Bank rooms have been adapted The premises of Milk Bank have been equipped with furniture. They were also purchased accessories for the Milk Bank: pasteurization bottles, disposable sets, microwave disinfection bags, disposable bottles, bottle identification labels, disposable cola containers. List of the most important medical equipment: - incubator closed,- transport incubator,- transport respirator,- breathing apparatus, - phantoms for learning advanced resuscitation, - set for difficult intubation,- syringe heater,- kangaroo chair,- fotional seat with footrest,- ultrasound and KTG with telemetry,- cardiomonitor, - detector fetal heartbeat,- infrared heater,- patient labs,- pedagogic milk maker,- single-focal operating lamp for HSG research,- birth bed, - milk composition analyzer,- bottles for milk pasteurization, - ultrasonic hemogenizer. The bank established cooperation with 38 donors, collected over 300 liters of milk, which has already benefited more than 100 recipients. All indicators in the project were achieved: number of patients issued with regard to health services - 4595, number of infrastructure projects - 1, the number of patients hospitalized annually, in cases where the effect is they are a kind of time of their active participation during the treatment period - 325, numerical advice in the newly created clinics: Laktacyjna and Pathology, Early Pregnancy(events) - 740, number of soldiers born in the Bank of Milk(annually) - 200
Summary of bilateral results