An updated clinical diagnostic laboratory of City Clinical Hospital No. 1 has been opened in Vitebsk
– In recent years, there has been a lot of criticism directed at Hospital No. 1. This is a medical institution of regional subordination, serving patients from Vitebsk and the region, and it lacked a good laboratory. 60% of laboratory tests were performed at the regional diagnostic and cardiology centers. The updated laboratory will now allow all necessary examinations, including highly specialized ones, to be carried out directly within the institution, which will reduce the time for their completion several times, – noted Mikhail Vishnevetsky, Head of the Main Department for Healthcare of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.
During the reconstruction, the planned and emergency laboratories were merged and equipped with state-of-the-art laboratory diagnostic equipment that allows for the full spectrum of clinical, biochemical, and hematological tests. However, the hospital does not utilize all the capabilities of the analyzers, so the issue of the laboratory providing services to other medical institutions is being worked on. It has already been decided that analyses for City Polyclinic No. 5, which will move to an adjacent building connected to Hospital No. 1 by an overhead walkway this year, will be performed here.
– Renovations at the institution will continue until the end of the year. Repairs and modernization of the anesthesiology and intensive care unit, which is important for us, are underway with a 100% equipment replacement. Current repairs will be carried out in the cardiology department and the institution's facade – the reception area, – reported Andrey Kakoychenko, Chief Physician of Vitebsk City Clinical Hospital No. 1.
In addition to the reconstruction of Vitebsk City Hospital No. 1 and the upcoming relocation of Vitebsk Polyclinic No. 5, a new Orsha Central Polyclinic is planned to be commissioned by the end of the year. The reconstruction of the regional infectious diseases hospital has begun, and construction and installation work in the operating and resuscitation unit of the regional clinical hospital will start after the project passes expert review, the head of the regional health department reported.