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Construction of the South Buda Central Hospital will begin next spring. The super hospital will be built on an area of 223,000 square meters and will provide 1.2 million people. With the exception of plastic surgery for burns, all medical care will be provided at the institution. Prime Minister Robert Robert Bedros told Origo that in this hospital, literally everything will be about the patient: not just his recovery, but also creating the optimal environment that best serves him. The institution will not only serve the residents of the capital, but will also receive patients from five counties in the central and western Hungary region and provide 24-hour emergency care. He added that Dobogo was chosen as the hospital location because there is enough space and transportation potential here to build an ultra-modern and uncompromising hospital that provides VIP care to every patient. There are already 20 bus services to approach the site, but the transport network is being expanded. A visual plan of the transportation sketch of the Central Hospital of the South Hospital has also been completed, which we will show first here in Origó. This already shows how you will be able to approach DBC. Interview with Prime Minister Róbert Bedros.
How is the investment in the South Buda Central Hospital progressing? When can construction begin?
I see there are those who are impatient, but we are also building a real super hospital in terms of size, technology, equipment and supply, not only at the national level, but also at the global level. We are talking about 223 thousand square meters of surface, 1,200 beds and 1.2 million patients to attend to, in addition to all health care except burnt plastic. The preparation of the area, as well as the planning with the participation of a serious team of experts, is already in full swing, but such an enormous amount of work will undoubtedly take one and a half to two years. By comparison, the Austrian Krankenhaus Nord, which is smaller than the Central Hospital in southern Buda, was designed for five years and then built for seven years. We are still looking forward to laying the foundation stone for the institution next spring and starting construction, which could be completed in 2026.
However, it would have been a faster solution to develop an existing hospital. For example, St. Imre. It would probably have been cheaper than HUF 300 billion; besides, it was half at the beginning.
In 2015, when the idea was formulated, it was still a very sketchy idea, accompanied by an estimate. The precise delimitation of specific ideas, the assessment of professional needs, the designation of the care area only allowed us to determine the profiles and the number of beds. The plans – and therefore the budget – have already been aligned with these aspects. By the way, the 300 billion HUF does not stand out in the international comparison either, and we have already included the purchase of the most modern diagnostic instruments and tools in this amount. These, of course, we haven’t bought yet; so we only buy the best and most modern machines available at that time in the last stage of the investment. As for the St. Imre Hospital expansion: we are simply not talking about the same magnitude.
What are the basic differences?
St. Imre Hospital at that time became a spa hospital and a public hospital. This includes general medical care for some 350,000 people, but the profiles needed to provide emergency care to a population of millions have not been planned for this hospital from the outset. How could a 223,000-square-meter, 1,200-bed institution be established with nationwide coverage covering 1.2 million people in the 44,000-square-meter St. Imre Hospital with a total of 536 active beds? How can new services be expanded with health services where there can only be renovations that are delimited by fences, walls and, for example, heating systems? It should be noted that old hospitals can be renovated, but it is simply not worth making a new one in an old hospital. St. Imre will function as a co-hospital alongside the South Buda Center, where it will treat patients in need of chronic and preoperative preparation and postoperative rehabilitation. But we have other plans.
What are these?
In the XIX. at the end of the 20th century and In the first half of the 19th century, the St. Imre Hospital was replaced by a spa center called “Erzsébet Sósfürdő”. The water was recommended for certain digestive, gynecological and locomotor conditions, as well as for certain skin diseases. After the Second World War, other developments began and However, the investment in the superhospital will allow to reuse the thermal water and rebuild the spa, and connect a spa hotel to it, which could increase the income of the institution through medical tourism to at the expense of the free capacities of the St. Imre Hospital and in the treatment of thermal waters of the people living in the surrounding neighborhoods and settlements.
Why was Dobogo chosen as the location for South Buda Central Hospital? It falls enough.
At that time, St. John’s or St. Roch’s Hospital was also built on the outskirts of the city, but then the city “surrounded” it. There is enough space and transportation potential here to build an uncompromising ultra-modern hospital that provides VIP care to all One patient We put everything to this approach during design and construction. Importantly, the institution will not only serve residents of the capital, but will also receive patients from five counties in the Central and Western Hungary region and provide 24-hour emergency care. The environmental impact of this enormous task cannot be allowed in the densely populated interior of southern Buda, as cars, ambulances and rescue helicopters bringing the wounded and sick can arrive here day and night. Currently, Dobogo can be reached by about 20 buses, there is also a city and long-distance bus line nearby, but the transport network is expanding. An important aspect was that the institution under construction could be easily accessible by public transport, by road and by air – Dobogó fulfilled all the conditions.
Budapest Fejlesztési Központ Nonprofit Zrt. (BFK) recently announced a public procurement for the South Buda Central Hospital transportation development. What do you know about this?
Planning should take into account the need to reach the institution by as many means of transportation as possible and prioritize ambulances. The winner of the public procurement will have to design an adequate infrastructure for the adequate service of the community, the highway, as well as pedestrians and bicyclists, and the developments will also be able to serve other transportation needs in the area. The approximately 400-meter long stretch of Dobogó út will be extended to four lanes between Lapu utca and Balatoni út, taking into account the preference of ambulances. In addition, a new “special level” junction will be created at the intersection of the M1-M7 motorway, Budaörsi út, Gazdagréti út, Lapu utca and Dobogó út. Examination and planning of the establishment of bus lanes. A visual plan of the traffic sketch of the Central Hospital of the South Hospital has also been completed, which we will first show to Origo readers. This already shows how you will be able to approach DBC.
We are talking about an ultra-modern and uncompromising hospital with VIP care. What does all this mean for patients?
In this hospital, literally everything will be about the patient – not just his recovery, but also creating the optimal environment that best serves him. For example, ambulance traffic is provided from all directions, and the two helicopter landings are also designed to provide patient care as quickly as possible. We put a lot of emphasis on safety; It may sound strange, but even individual rooms serve that purpose. Foreign research shows that in separate rooms, for example, the incidence of falls or fractures is significantly reduced, cardiovascular patients heal better, and nosocomial infections can be reduced. But with individual wards, we also create the opportunity that is essential for healing: loved ones of the patient can hold her hand, be with her, and thus not interrupt either the other patients or the movement of the staff. We put the children in double rooms so that there can be a parent with each little patient; I don’t think it is necessary to explain the importance of that.
Obviously, all this increases the cost.
This is actually an investment. In terms of direct costs, it is obviously more expensive than standard 2-8 bed rooms, but cheaper in terms of long-term results, general social benefits of better and faster recovery results: fewer hospital days, shorter sick pay periods, fewer medications, to name just layman examples. In addition, the investment is also aimed at operating the hospital with green energy, that is, we want to minimize maintenance costs as much as possible. The energy bill, for example, is significantly reduced with the so-called light patios, which provide natural light to the institution. Also, we will use geothermal energy, the hospital will be paperless and could list more.
But why go shopping and post office?
Other modern hospitals also have a cafeteria, a branch, or even a hair salon, like Vienna. In a hospital, patients are restricted due to their condition, and family members also bear a heavier burden. I believe that, if possible, in addition to healing, all services should be available to help the patient to integrate into daily life even during recovery and to help families to overcome this difficult period. Patient and family centered care in DBC will manifest itself in all areas, not just directly healing, and here we have returned to an uncompromising hospital.
What makes DBC even more modern?
State-of-the-art technological background is realized: thanks to digital monitoring, drug misconduct can be eliminated, we use laser robots to solve food delivery, drug distribution, or just laundry logistics. Findings, medication, and patient status will also be digitally traceable. This is a unique healthcare investment not only in Hungary, but throughout Europe. The South Central Hospital Hospital will not only be the flagship of Hungarian healthcare, but also a model: I am sure that the developments that are implemented here will have more fans internationally.
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