The building complex for the University Hospital is being built at a 15-hectare site in Kraków-Prokocim. The entire construction is to be completed in April 2019. A consortium consisting of Warbud SA, VAMED Standortentwicklung und Engineering GmbH&CO KG, and Porr Polska SA is the general contractor of the project, whose total value is 1.2 billion PLN.
The construction works started in late 2015. The completed facilities include a multi-storey car park with 730 parking spaces, a boiler house, a gas decompression facility, rainwater and wastewater tanks, and 4 out of 9 sections of the main building.
“We are planning to finish the construction of building shells of the main structure and accompanying facilities in March 2017. At the moment the work is 70 percent complete. It is the largest new hospital that is currently being built in Poland. The complex contains a wide variety of diagnostic facilities, a large operating block, three ward buildings, and a teaching facility, indispensible for a university hospital”, explains Lech Wąsowski, chairman of the board of Warbud SA Medical Construction Division. The hospital will also have a helipad and a second car park. First patients are to be admitted in early 2020.
The new university hospital will be equipped with state-of-the-art medical apparatus used in various fields of medicine, including oncology, transplantation medicine, hematology, cardiology and other disciplines. This will significantly contribute to the improvement of health protection of the citizens of Kraków and Małopolska. The entire complex will consist of 13 buildings with a total floor area of 110 thousand square metres. It will contain 24 operation theatres, a trauma centre, over 30 outpatient clinics, administrative premises, as well as educational facilities for the Jagiellonian University Medical College students. The hospital is aimed to perform a strategic role in the area of diagnosis, non-invasive and surgical treatment, as well as medical education and research with the use of state-of-the-art equipment and methods.
