Government approves funding for expansion of the Oncology Centre
It’s now official. The government has approved a 300-million-złoty grant from the Medical Fund for the expansion and modernization of the main complex of the Marshal’s Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz. With a total project cost exceeding half a billion złoty, the facility will build a new Centre for Innovative Oncological Therapies, modernize the main hospital building with its operating theaters and ICU, and add a multi-level parking garage for more than 200 cars. The financing package will be completed with funds from the regional budget and the hospital’s own budget.
“Our Oncology Centre is among the twenty facilities receiving this type of grant. Out of 57 entities that entered the Ministry of Health’s competition for funding strategic projects, it ranked third. This hospital, which diagnoses and treats patients at the highest global standards, is constantly modernizing and developing. It has for years been one of the best hospitals in Poland. But, as we know, in medicine there are no ‘finished’ projects, hence the need for further investments to keep pace with the world’s best,” emphasized Marshal Piotr Całbecki.
The competition for grants from the government’s Medical Fund, whose results have just been approved, was decided in the autumn. The Director of the Oncology Centre, Prof. Janusz Kowalewski, informed Marshal Piotr Całbecki that the facility will soon be able to begin the investment. The green light to announce the already prepared tender procedures will be the signing of the project funding agreement, currently being prepared by the Ministry of Health.
As part of the investment planned for 2026-2029, the project includes the construction of a modern five-story building for the Centre for Innovative Oncological Therapies (which will house, among others, clinical oncology wards, a chemotherapy outpatient unit, and cytostatics laboratories), modernization of the hospital’s main building (including expansion of the operating theater block, enlargement of the intensive care unit, and upgrades to the endoscopy department, hospital pharmacy, and cancer pathology department), as well as construction of an above-ground multi-level parking facility.
Expansion of the Oncology Centre
- expansion and modernization of the main complex
- construction of the Centre for Innovative Oncological Therapies
- construction of a 212-space multi-level parking garage
- usable floor area: 21,000 sq m
- estimated value: over 500 million złoty
The Marshal’s Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz is a highly rated specialist hospital that continues to develop and implement the latest achievements of global medicine in patient care. The most important investments in recent years 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 medical linear accelerator integrated with MRI imaging for real-time visualization of irradiated tumors), and the digitalization of the cancer pathology department using AI algorithms. Prof. Łukasz Szylberg received last year’s Marshal’s Award in medicine for this project.
Cancer remains one of the most serious health challenges in the region. Kujawsko-Pomorskie is among the Polish regions with the highest rates of both cancer incidence and mortality, according to the latest report by the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Office of the National Cancer Registry.
Press Office of the Marshal’s Office
February 4, 2026