Government support enables completion of Pólus Project in Kaposvár

Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh delivered an address at the topping out ceremony of Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital in Kaposvár on 22 October, 2013. Enabled by the additional grant of HUF 2.5 billion awarded by the Government, the comprehensive reconstruction of Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital can be implemented by June 2015, it was mentioned at the event.

Within the framework of the comprehensive infrastructure development of Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital, four of the eight wings of the North Block of the hospital as well as the Diagnostics Block were inaugurated last March. At the topping out ceremony of the other two wings to be constructed within the project, Zsuzsa Németh emphasised that the hospital in Kaposvár could be the first hospital in the Pólus Programme the development of which was to be implemented from the very first to the very last phase.

“Our expectations of the over HUF 14.5bn awarded from the New Széchenyi Plan funds are that the development will enable shorter waiting lists, safer and better quality care, improving use of capacity and more economically sound and efficient operation”, the minister explained.