Przylądek Nadziei completed [PHOTOS]

The clinic is the largest children's transplant centre in Poland, and from now on it will also be the most modern. Przylądek Nadziei offers a sufficient number of beds to treat 76 small patients at the same time.

Dignity, at last

Additionally, the hospital has a day ward with ten beds which can be used by children who are able to return home after a surgery or receiving a medicine. All rooms for children at the new clinic offer either one or two beds. All rooms also have convertible beds for parents to stay overnight with their children. Annually, the clinic will be able to provide care to over two thousand children from all over Poland. Przylądek Nadziei will be granted the name of the Transregional Centre for Children Oncology in Wroclaw, which means that it will provide care to minor patients with cancer both in Lower Silesia and elsewhere in the neighbouring provinces. The clinic has been constructed next to the University Hospital in ul. Borowska, and they are both interconnected with an underground corridor. This means the new clinic will be provided access to the University Hospital's emergency ward, imaging lab and other facilities. The new hospital can be accessed by car via ul. Weigla.

Children friendly

Przylądek Nadziei's ground plan resembles the letter E. The building is also glazed, and the interiors are brightly illuminated. The designers took particular care not to place any patient rooms adjacent to the north wall, where only a blank wall and hotel rooms for parents are located. Rooms for children are brightly illuminated and painted in lively pastel hues. Przylądek Nadziei will also have special areas to study and to play. Children will be able to use a day room and a library, two classrooms and a traveller's room, the latter's idea coming from Martyna Wojciechowska, a television personality and the clinic's ambassador. The room will be there for children to play and find inspiration to travel around the world. A playground and a small park are also located in the hospital's immediate vicinity.

Investment

The clinic design cost 2.5 million PLN and was financed by the "Na ratunek dzieciom z choroba nowotworową" Foundation, which presented a suitable donation to the Medical University of Wroclaw. With first ten million PLN collected by the foundation and a construction permit received in December 2011, the Medical University could finally apply to the EU for a subsidy. In December 2012, Przylądek Nadziei received an eighty-five million-PLN EU subsidy, which was additionally supplemented by a fifteen-million-PLN subsidy granted by the Polish Ministry of Health.

Photographs: Tomasz Walków