An investment of 1.25 billion crowns has been prepared for this year by the University Hospital (FN) Plzeň, the largest medical facility in southwestern Bohemia. It is a ninth of the expected budget for this year, which is supposed to be 11.25 billion crowns. This is a larger budget than the City of Pilsen or the Pilsen Region has approved for this year. The hospital will invest, for example, in the development of cyber security, in equipment or in the construction of new workplaces. It will also prepare for tenders for future construction investments worth billions of crowns, said director Václav Šimánek.
The hospital’s turnover last year was 11 billion crowns, and the FN ended the year with a positive result of 850 million crowns. “Last year, the FN completed several essential projects financed by subsidies from European funds, the state budget and its own resources, spent 3.7 billion crowns on the purchase of material and 4.9 billion crowns on personal expenses,” said the director. This year, 4.2 billion crowns are prepared for material consumption, of which 2.2 billion crowns are directly for medicines. Personal expenses are to rise to 5.25 billion crowns this year.
This year’s investment plan assumes that FN will give 840 million from its own resources and 410 million from subsidies, of which 80 percent will come from the EU and 20 percent from the state budget. This year, for example, the hospital succeeded in the IROP program with five projects with a total subsidy of 240 million crowns for the development of cyber security. The National Recovery Plan program will help financially with the purchase of devices for oncology and hemato-oncology for a total of 300 million CZK and with the acquisition of a robotic rehabilitation device for a total of 50 million, of which 20 million is a subsidy.
“This year, it is essential for us to complete the construction of new workplaces at the Cardiology Clinic for 180 million crowns. We are also participating in a call to support the construction of the infectious diseases pavilion, where we expect total costs of up to one billion crowns and we could receive a subsidy of approximately 400 million crowns. At the same time, we are ready to compete with the construction contractor for the surgical pavilion, where the project documentation is ready,” Šimánek said. The cost of the new surgery will be almost four billion crowns and it will be the largest investment in the history of the hospital. “An optimistic estimate aims to start construction by 2025,” said the director.
The hospital had more than a billion in investments last year as well. Thanks to subsidies from the React EU fund, it completed five projects. It received 640 million CZK from the EU, almost 42 million from the state and provided 80 million from its budget. For this, for example, it completed a major reconstruction of the metabolic intensive care unit for 109 million. Another project was the restoration and modernization of imaging technology for 360 million, new equipment for operating theaters for less than 65 million crowns, equipment for oncology workplaces for 168 million and new equipment for laboratories for almost 60 million crowns, Šimánek calculated.
In addition, last year, for example, the FN completely reconstructed the Transfusion Department, built a stationary unit for the Clinic of Pneumology and Phthisiology, and reconstructed dozens of elevators and delivery rooms in the maternity hospital.
The Pilsen University Hospital performed 1,085,558 outpatient examinations in 2023, an increase of 53,000 year-on-year. The number of hospitalizations also increased, which was 60,542 last year, a decrease of 1,332 the year before. Only the number of births decreased, as in other maternity hospitals in the region. In 2022, 3,081 women gave birth in the FN, last year there were 2,801 births in the hospital.
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