site.btaChildren's Hospital Health Investment Company Signs Agreement with European Investment Bank

The Health Investment Company for Children's Hospital has signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank under Phase 2 for the provision of a technical assistance grant. This was announced by the press service of the Ministry of Health on Thursday. The agreement provides for the preparation of three documents: Structure, scope and capacity of the hospital, which will specify the scope of specialties, therapeutic and surgical structures, diagnostic structures, number and type of clinics, etc.; Functional report or design brief, which will include the number of hospital beds, scope of the emergency admission ward, operating and diagnostic rooms, hospital rooms, electrical, heating and ventilation requirements; and Scope of equipment and furnishings.

The work on the preparation of the documents will proceed simultaneously.

At the end of December 2023, a team from the European Investment Bank presented a Sofia children's hospital needs analysis, prepared in the framework of the European Investment Advisory Centre, an initiative of the European Commission in partnership with the European Investment Bank.

The national and regional demand and supply study shows that there is a need for a multidisciplinary hospital for the treatment of children's diseases at the highest level of competence, providing comprehensive and integrated medical care in all paediatric specialities. The hospital should become the centre of a coordinated network of interrelated and complementary regional inpatient and outpatient paediatric practices.