TIRANA, Aug 8 /ATA/ Minister of Health and Social Protection, Ogerta Manastirliu, shared on Monday a view of the rehabilitation and expansion of the Infectious Disease Hospital at Tirana University Hospital Centre, where work continues unabated to be delivered by the summer.
Manastirliu assured that the Infectious Hospital at QSUT (Tirana University Hospital Centre) will be a referral center for infectious diseases up to the standards to respond to health emergencies.
The investment worth 5.6 million euros consists in the reconstruction and expansion of the capacities of the Infectious Disease Hospital. This investment is made as part of strengthening the capacities in the hospital system and especially capacity building for hospital services for infectious diseases and the 2021-2022 Action Plan for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This hospital will have a capacity of 118 bedding units. It has been designed to have negative air pressure rooms for patients to prevent the circulation of infectious diseases from the room to the common areas. The project entails a doubling of resuscitation capacities and an increase in capacities of intensive care department.
The hospital will have all the necessary state-of-the-art equipment as well as surveillance activity, in the data network, for monitoring patients in real time. The new hospital will also be equipped with an auditorium and lecture halls for medical students.
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