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"Since we are a very popular hospital, with people coming from all over the country, and we are not able to meet the demand, we decided to expand," hospital owner Sotirios Zavalianis told the Beroun daily.
The facility would add five more operating theatres, expand the A&E department to 25 beds, build a new sterilisation room and space for imaging equipment such as CT scans and ultrasounds. "We want to add 120 more beds, of which 40 to 50 would be acute, the rest for aftercare. If we get the permits, we hope to start construction in the fall," Sotirios Zavalianis revealed.
The Greek owner, who owns the hospital in Beroun in addition to the one in Hořovice, intends to expand services for patients with additional outpatient facilities. A new wing with ten outpatient clinics will be built on the site. "We are going to expand urology, because we have skilled urologists and we are going to perform a wide range of operations. We are expanding ENT and also gynaecology. Several new doctors have arrived, including one of the few paediatric gynaecologists, Leoš Teslík. We have therefore significantly expanded the care and surgery we provide," said the owner of the hospital, who has one wish. "We hope to exceed the number of two thousand births this year or next year."
Currently, Hořovice is working to expand OCHRIP, a facility for chronically ill children. Due to the high demand for the ward's services, it will now have a capacity of up to 13 beds. In addition, the hospital management has decided to expand the therapeutic, diagnostic and monitoring possibilities in the treatment of chronic paediatric patients by upgrading the existing equipment park.
The company's kindergarten
In addition, new methodologies will be introduced without the need for their often complicated transport of patients to individual wards. "All of this will enable us to maintain a high standard of medical and nursing care for our pediatric patients. The highly positive feedback from the parents of our patients already proves this," says Daniel Blažek, the head of OCHRIP in Horovice.
Another major project is the construction of the long-awaited new parking lot. Its capacity will be 208 spaces and it will meet the latest requirements for barrier-free use. The car park, which will finally solve the difficult traffic situation in the vicinity of the hospital, will be accessible from the local road K Nemocnici, with a barrier system at the entrance. "We apologise for the delay, but no one knew that in the exact place where we are building the car park, there are internet backbone cables leading to Prague. We signed a contract with Czech Telecommunications Infrastructure, which has to relocate the cables. But it's problematic, they're too busy because they're building everywhere. But we hope that by autumn it will be ready," said Sotirios Zavalianis.
He decided to meet the needs of several dozen employees of the hospital in Horovice and approved the plan to set up a company kindergarten. "We are just finishing it now. It will be for 28 children. It is an investment of 16 to 17 million crowns," Zavalianis added, recalling the upcoming anniversary. The last day of June will mark exactly ten years since the privatisation of the hospital in Hořovice, in which the owner says he has invested more than a billion crowns in that time.
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