The Paediatric Hospital in the central city of Elbasan has been transformed into a child-friendly environment to provide optimum care and treatment to the paediatric patients thanks to a state budget-funded investment project on complete rehabilitation of the four-storey building constructed before the 90s, now already transformed, not only in terms of infrastructure, but also in terms of layout and functional aspect of its venues.

Prime Minister Edi Rama headed to Elbasan on Monday and together with the Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu visited the new hospital facility, which delivers care and health services to more than 20,000 children. 

Health Minister Manastirliu said that the Elbasan Hospital is now a complete corpus in terms of the hospital infrastructure after being equipped with state-of-the-art technology, radiographic imaging rooms and laboratories.

“After an investment drive to rehabilitate and upgrade regional Elbasan Hospital, the latest investment project we delivered on included reconstruction of the Paediatric Hospital and the facility has been equipped to allow for provision of optimum care services to more than 20,000 children each year. Doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and local citizens best remember the conditions in this facility previously, but the Elbasan hospital corpus is now best equipped in terms of hospital infrastructure, as well as in terms of state-of-the-art technology, radiographic imaging rooms and laboratories, which have been all included in the hospital development programme,” Manastirliu said.

With a 75-bed outpatient capacity and 60-bed hospitalization capacity, the Paediatric Hospital in Elbasan provides care and treatment on daily basis, neuro – interitis, bronchitis, and infectious paediatrics service. The hospital also houses a 15-bed capacity emergency room.

The new hospital is also a long-awaited investment for the dedicated health staff of the Elbasan Pediatric Hospital that treats on average 80 small patients a day in the emergency service and up to 150 children at peak of seasonal viral infections.