First phase of a project on rehabilitation of the new Internal Medicine Hospital, an integral part of the Trauma University Hospital Centre in Tirana, is already underway, the latest investment project designed to turn the facility into a new centre of excellence for care and medical services.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, accompanied by the Minister of Health and Social Protection, today toured the construction site to inspect firsthand the ongoing work. The reconstruction work is in full swing, while the second phase of the project will go on with rehabilitation of the central hospital facility.

“It is a brand new 60-bed hospital, but what makes this facility stand apart is the fact that it will also house an outpatient associated facility that has been missing or it was just adopted for this purpose recently. The outpatient facility will help ensure that all the medical consultations currently taking place at the central hospital will be arranged and housed at this floor of the building. The two other floors will house the inpatient wards, which will be connected with the existing hospital via a bridge-like structure to allow for the transfer of patients from the emergency ward to the imaging and laboratory tests and examinations needed for all the hospitalized patients,” Health Minister Manastirliu said.

Thanks to a series of investments in this hospital centre over the years, the conditions and medical services have been improved significantly. Investments are also underway to enhance the hospital’s medical equipment fleet with state-of-the-art biomedical equipment.

“This is the newest latest generation device necessary for the type of examinations provided at this hospital. The device can examine the whole body of a patient in just three minutes and it can examine 20 patients in one hour only,” one of the doctors said about the MRI scanner recently installed at this hospital.

“The investments in the Trauma University Hospital haven’t been suspended for a single moment. This hospital centre is currently handling the entire surgical emergencies that should normally be performed at the Mother Teresa University Hospital Centre, but which have been transferred to the Trauma Hospital because of the ongoing investments currently at University Hospital Centre,” Health Minister added.

Professionalism in providing care service has also increased thanks to the doctors who have returned back home to provide their contribution to the country.

“I came back to the country in 2019 and sending the CV was totally a coincidence. I found an open door of the portal for doctors. I graduated in Italy and I have been working for five years in France. My specialty is laparoscopy. When I came back I asked for some support in terms of technology and I was provided with it immediately and therefore we already have two laparoscopy rooms, we program, we work in line with European standards in terms of not only emergency surgery but also planned surgeries,” doctor Valmira said.

The investment drive in this hospital center will continue with the aim of transforming it into a new regional center.