The works at the Regional Institute of Oncology in Timisoara begin. Alfred Simonis: “It’s the biggest funding”

The president of the Timiş County Council, Alfred Simonis, announced on Wednesday that the order to start the works at the Regional Oncology Institute in Timisoara was given. According to Simonis, this would be the largest financing in the sanitary field, outside the capital.

Patients in western Romania will benefit from a regional oncological institute. Archive

“This morning was signed the order to start the works for the Oncological Institute in Timisoara, the ruin on Calea Torontalului, the hospital that the political leaders talk about 30 years. Timişoara is a great victory, it is a complicated project, it was a difficult project to take, probably the biggest financing from outside the sanitary field in Romania, which is so advanced.said Alfred Simonis, on Wednesday, in a press conference, according to News.ro.

How the hospital will look like and how much it costs

The National Investment Company designated in mid -March the association of companies that will build on the Torontalului Calea of ​​Timisoara the new Regional Institute of Oncology. It will be erected on the place where over 30 years ago the construction of a municipal hospital began, but the project remained abandoned. The Erbaşu construction company together with another 15 companies in association will do the design, then build the Regional Institute of Oncology.

The new hospital will serve the western area of ​​the country and will have 250 beds for day hospitalization, outpatient, diagnostic services (laboratory analysis, imaging, endoscopy, functional explorations), operator block, intensive care, radiotherapy laboratory, nuclear medicine laboratory, center for medullary transplantation).

The health unit will also have a center for receiving oncological emergencies and study and research spaces (multifunctional room, study rooms, practical presentations, study offices, etc.).

The Regional Institute of Oncology in Timisoara will cost almost 250 million euros, the financing being provided by PNRR.