Big funding for a major investment by the Regional Oncology Centre
PLN 300 million – this is the amount of funding granted from the government’s Medical Fund for the expansion and modernization of the main complex of the Marshal’s Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz. With a total project cost of PLN 450 million, the facility will build a new Centre for Innovative Oncology Therapies and modernize the main hospital building, including the operating suite and intensive care unit. The remaining funds will come from the regional government’s budget and the hospital’s own resources.
“Our Oncology Centre is among twenty medical institutions that have received this type of funding. Out of 57 applicants in the Ministry of Health’s competition for strategic investment projects, it was ranked third! This brings us great joy and pride. The hospital, which diagnoses and treats patients at the highest world standards, continues to modernize and grow. It has long been one of the best hospitals in Poland. But, as we know, in medicine there are no final projects — which is why new investments are necessary to keep pace with the world’s best,” emphasized Marshal Piotr Całbecki.
As part of this investment project, planned for 2026–2029, a modern five-story building will be constructed to house the Centre for Innovative Oncology Therapies (including clinical oncology wards, an outpatient chemotherapy unit, and cytostatics laboratories). The project will also include the modernization of the hospital’s main building, expanding the operating block and intensive care unit, and upgrading the endoscopy department, hospital pharmacy, and oncology pathology unit.
Unfortunately, the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship continues to rank high in national oncology statistics. It holds the second highest rate of cancer incidence in Poland, and ranks first or second in female cancer mortality, as well as second to third and fifth to sixth in male cancer incidence and mortality. Reports indicate as many as 11,000 new cancer cases annually.
“Every day, 300–400 patients receive chemotherapy in our outpatient unit, and over 1,500 are treated across the entire hospital,” says Małgorzata Rogatty, press officer of the Oncology Centre. “The scale of medical needs increases each year, and infrastructure must keep up. The planned investment offers a real opportunity for better and faster diagnosis, and for access to modern therapy.”
The Marshal’s Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz is a highly rated specialist hospital, continuously developing and implementing the latest advances in global medicine. The facility’s most important recent investments include the creation of a Robotic Surgery Centre (with three permanently operating surgical robots), the purchase of state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment (a modern linear medical accelerator integrated with a magnetic resonance imaging system for precise imaging of irradiated tumors), and the digitalization of the oncology pathology department using AI algorithms — a project for which Prof. Łukasz Szylberg received this year’s Marshal’s Award in the field of medicine.
Beata Krzemińska
Spokesperson for the Marshal’s Office
7 October 2025