Three-shift construction work is in full steam ahead to meet the building schedule of one of the most important hospital infrastructure projects in the country.
Progress of the construction work is impressive and running on schedule to deliver highest standards in construction and equipment of the state-of-the-art technology.
Prime Minister Edi Rama today visited the city of Fier to inspect the ongoing work to construct the new Memorial Hospital, which is set to complete in the coming days.
The space around the hospital buildings has been rehabilitated with decorative elements. Around 97% of the construction work has already completed, while work on the main waiting hall has completed, including equipment installation and hiring medical and healthcare personnel is the last remaining task.
“We expect a team of 12 medical personnel to arrive from Turkey on Monday. Seven of them will deal with arrangement of equipment and training of the local health personnel for the equipment set to arrive soon. Five of them are health professionals, including hospital management team, namely a nurse manager, a medical deputy manager and an administrative deputy manager, who will be tasked with arranging and organizing whole activity so that we take over the building, equipment and whole hospital on April 14 and prepare to make it fully operational. The emergency ward and the polyclinic are set to become operational first,” the Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu explained, adding that high-quality care services will be delivered, including services that are not available at the university hospitals.
The new hospital will have six operating rooms equipped with the state-of-the-art technology. “Turkey’s Ministry of Health will provide medical devices and equipment. Around 80% of the equipment have been delivered and already installed. The care services range from general surgeries to torocal surgery. With its six operating rooms, the new hospital is on par with the hospitals block of the University Hospital Centre in Tirana,” Health Minister went on saying.
Prime Minister Rama announced that designing a project on opening a subsidiary of one of Turkey’s excellent medicine universities adjacent to the new hospital facility in Fier. “We should launch our efforts to establish a subsidiary of Turkish Medicine University in the area. The University will offer curricula, degree programs and management taught by both Turkish and Albanian professors and students will be graduated from that university. This is my first mission as soon as we take over the third term in office,” the Premier said.
The new Regional Memorial Hospital will also be made available for treatment of the novel coronavirus patients as a COVID-dedicated ward and intensive care unit will be set up in the new facility. “The hospital has been equipped with high intensive care capacities as we have decided to make one of the hospital’s wards available for treatment of coronavirus patients. So, a total of 20 intensive care beds have been made available,” Manastirliu said. “We have created an imaging department, which will provide all radiology services, including an imaging scanner, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography, and it will also serve the scientific research activities,” she added.
The application process for the medical personnel is underway and it is set to complete on April 7, to go on with the selection and recruitment process. “Applications for this hospital close on the 7th of April and immediately after we will start the selection process. So far, as many as 424 applicants and medical staff have been applied. We will wait for all applications to be finalized and we will do the recruitment process,” Minister Manastirliu explained.
