Szent-Györgyi Albert Klinikai Központ Department of Surgery

3rd Open Call for Proposals

Project code

ROHU-400

Project title

ROHUNOVATION

Improving health-care services through innovative RO-HU surgical ideas

Priority axis

4 – Improving health-care services (Cooperating on health-care and prevention)

Investment priority

9/a - Investment in heath and social infrastructure which contributes to national, regional and local development, reducing inequalities in terms of health status, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social, cultural and recreational services and the transition from institutional to community-based services.

Implementatio

n period

30 months (1st of January 2020 – 30 of June 2022)

Objective

The main objective is to increase quality of medical services offered to the population of Timis and Csongrad-Csanad counties, through the aquisition of performant equipment.

Partnership

Lead Beneficiary: The Emergency County Hospital "Pius Brinzeu" of Timisoara (Romania)

Project Partner:

PP2: University of Szeged (Hungary)

TOTAL Budget

€ 2,935,100.00 out of which ERDF € 2,494,835.00

Summary

Project ROHU-400 aims to improve the health-care services establishing solid cross-border partnership and facilitating easier and quicker accesibility of medical services.

The main activities are:

• Organizing 4 accredited professional training programs for increasing the quality of the medical services;
• Purchasing 47 medical equipments and afferent goods for 5 health-care departments, namely (The 2nd Surgery Clinic, Department of Oncology and the Gynecological Department of the Emergency County Hospital “Pius Brinzeu” of Timisoara and Department of Surgery and Department of Oro-Maxillofacial Surgery and Department of Surgery of Szeged University);
• Developing 1 Patient Management Systems (telediagnostic infrastructure) for the exchange of patient information and medical history making the treatment of cross-border patients more effective;
• Publishing 4 standardized protocols of best practices + 10 scientific articles in ISI-rated journals, in the field of prevention, early detection and minimally invasive intervention in oncology;
• Developing of a E-learning platform - for the medical residents/ students to exchange information with the joint interdisciplinary medical expert team - video and all training materials will be uploaded on the platform;
• Organizing trainings for medical staff, a number of 120 RO-HU surgeons in current clinical practice or in the preparation phase – medical residents and/ or students and nursing staff - involved in the oncology, field will attend the training programs and after that will transfer the good practice through a slide show presentation
• Organizing 30 conferences in the field of prevention, early detection and minimally invasive surgery in abdominal oncology.
• Organizing 4 cross-border awareness campaigns, to educate the target group about specific preventable cancers, the importance of health status screening and the benefits of minimally invasive surgery versus classic approach
• A minimum number of 3.000 patients will benefit from free of charge screening and medical diagnose.
• A number of 250 free of charge surgical interventions will be performed

The Programme Output Indicators are „9/a 1 Population having access to improved health services” and „9/a 2 Number of health-care departments affected by modernized equipment”. Through project ROHU – 400, a number of 403,000 persons benefit from improved health care services and 5 health-care departments are more efficient using modernized equipment purchased through the project.

Main results

Through the project ROHU–400, 5 medical departments, serving the population from Csongrad-Csanad and Timis Counties, were better equipped. A number of 250 free of charge surgical interventions were performed for the population from the targeted area. The quality of medical services and the access to them, for the population from Csongrad-Csanad and Timis Counties, was improved. Prevention measures, early identification and effective treatment of cancer, were made more accessible for the population, including people from disadvantaged groups.

Last but not least, the population from Csongrad-Csanad and Timis Counties has been better informed about cancer issues, through the awareness campaigns organized within the project.