Competition open for grants for health care businesses in Podlaskie region

PLN 100 million will be made available to entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector who have ideas to improve the health infrastructure – or can supply health care institutions with needed equipment – in Podlaskie voivodeship, the Marshal’s Office of Podlaskie announced in a press release on Saturday. The funds are made available as part of the EU’s ongoing Regional Operational Program (the ROP). The release stated that all applications can be submitted from February 1st to the end of June. “In the framework of the ROP competition, one hospital may submit one application,” the health board member of the Podlasie province Bogdan Dyjuk stated in the release. The money will be granted to projects that provide health care in the fields of cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory and mental health illnesses and diseases of the bones and joints. The release indicated that there would be a special emphasis placed on projects that provide innovation in the field of oncology – for example, in increasing the detection of cancer and the availability of rehabilitation for cancer patients. In Białystok, the region’s largest city, the Oncology Centre at the city’s Gynecological Regional hospital recently invested PLN 30 million to modernize and add an obstetrics and gynecology facility. “In this perspective, the emphasis is on modernization of hospital treatment, or for equipment and modernization works related to this equipment,” Dyjuk added. He pointed out that the purchase of equipment for magnetic resonance imaging was also a central need.