Over 3 mln PLN to fight the pandemic

17.08.2020

Fot. Paweł Sudara/the MUG

The University Center of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia will receive nearly PLN 3.1 million to fight the COVID-19 epidemic. The contract was signed on 14th of August this year by the Rector of the Medical University of Gdańsk, prof. Marcin Gruchała and the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczysław Struk. The meeting was attended by Agnieszka Kapała-Sokalska – a member of the Board of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and Dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk – director of the Health Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, and prof. Marcin Renke – director of UCMMiT and prof. Przemysław Rutkowski – dean elect of the Faculty of Health Sciences at IMMiT. Dr hab. Tomasz Smiatacz – head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, provincial consultant in the field of infectious diseases, dr hab. Katarzyna Sikorska – director of the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine and prof. Marek Koziński – head of the Department of Cardiology and Internal Diseases of the MUG were also present.

The MUG Hospital is a key center in Pomerania in the fight against the pandemic. The University Center of Maritime and Tropical Medicine was the first unit fully prepared to provide professional care for patients infected with coronavirus. - The funds received will be used to improve the infrastructure of the University Center for Maritime and Tropical Medicine, which will undoubtedly increase the safety of both patients and medical staff – says Prof. Marcin Gruchała, Rector of the MUG. – It was in this hospital that patients after bone marrow or heart transplant who were infected with the coronavirus, could be treated.

Fot. Paweł Sudara/the MUG

Fot. Paweł Sudara/the MUG

The transferred funds will allow to create 3 isolation rooms in the modular (container) system for the needs of the admission room, along with registration and collection of swabs from people suspected of the infection, and 3 isolated rooms for the needs of each of the three hospital departments. In addition, a video track for the Endoscopy Laboratory will be purchased, as well as a room at the Department of Cardiology and Internal Diseases, modernized and adapted for hospitalization of patients with COVID-19 in difficult condition. The investment is to be completed in March 2021.

Additional funds for the fight against the pandemic caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus come from EU funds under the Regional Operational Program of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for 2014-2020. They constitute an increase in the amount of funding for the Geriatrics Center project in Gdańsk implemented by the Medical University of Gdańsk.