The Centro Regional Program (Centro2030) opened two competitions to support health units in the region and hospital works in Guarda and Coimbra, with 44 million euros in European funds.
The Central Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDRC) states that the first competition, with an allocation of 20 million euros (ME), aims to “increase the response capacity of the hospital services network to new epidemiological and demographic challenges, including the use of information and communication technologies”.
Public entities that provide health services in the Central region can apply until June 28, 2024.
The second competition, with an allocation of 24 million euros, is intended for interventions in hospital service infrastructures as part of the completion of operations co-financed by Portugal 2020, which meet the requirements for the transition between two programming periods (2014 -2020 and 2021-2027).
This procedure is intended to finance the requalification of building 5 of the Sousa Martins Hospital to install the Children and Women’s department, the Local Health Unit of Guarda, the expansion and remodeling of the Emergency Service of the Hospitals of the University of Coimbra. of the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra and the requalification of the Surgery/Imaging building of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Coimbra.
For Isabel Damasceno, president of CCDRC, “the health area is a priority for the Central region”. The leader maintains that the strategy for 2030 establishes “as a differentiating element the creation of responses to new social problems and the organization of the territorial network to support the provision of services to citizens, such as health”.
Isabel Damasceno highlights that “this support allows hospitals to be more responsive to the needs of providing day-to-day services to the inhabitants of the Central region”.
