News

Meeting of Prof. Janusz Kowalewski (Oncology Centre) and Director Edward Hartwich (Regional Children’s Hospital) with Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda and Marshal Piotr Całbecki, photo: Szymon Zdziebło/tarantoga for the Marshal’s Office
Spotkanie prof. Janusza Kowalewskiego (Centrum Onkologii) i dyr. Edwarda Hartwicha (WSD) z min. Jolantą Sobierańską-Grendą i marszałkiem Piotrem Całbeckim, fot. Szymon Zdziebło/tarantoga dla UMWKP

Oncology Centre, Regional Children’s Hospital, Regional Integrated Hospital — these are our pride!

During her visit to our region today (18 February), Minister of Health Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda, accompanied by Marshal Piotr Całbecki, visited the Regional Integrated Hospital in Toruń. She toured departments located in the new main building and reviewed details of the expansion of the hospital complex carried out between 2017 and 2022, as well as the earlier consolidation process. Earlier, in the Marshal’s Office, she met with the directors of two Bydgoszcz medical institutions run by the regional government — the Oncology Centre and the Regional Children’s Hospital. The topic of discussion was ongoing and planned investments.

The three hospitals mentioned are our pride in the field of medicine. For years, the Oncology Centre and the Regional Children’s Hospital have ranked among the top institutions in major national healthcare rankings. The Oncology Centre is the country’s leading centre for robotic surgery and the first comprehensive centre for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The hospital records 22,000 hospitalisations annually, and its outpatient clinics provide 250,000 specialist consultations each year.

The Regional Children’s Hospital — with 220 hospital beds, 600 medical staff and 15,000 patients hospitalised annually — performs unique surgical, ENT and neurosurgical procedures. The Regional Integrated Hospital in Toruń is an excellent, even flagship, example of how a major infrastructure investment — wisely planned, intelligently financed and well executed — can raise treatment standards.

“All these institutions are constantly modernising and have recently completed major infrastructure investments. They are systematically purchasing state-of-the-art equipment and apparatus. Currently, the Regional Children’s Hospital is building a cutting-edge organ diagnostics centre, the Oncology Centre is preparing to expand and modernise its main complex, and the Regional Integrated Hospital is preparing to construct a new specialist outpatient clinic complex. As we know, in medicine there are no finished projects!” emphasises Marshal Piotr Całbecki.

See also:
Construction of a state-of-the-art Organ Diagnostics Centre at the Regional Children’s Hospital in Bydgoszcz
Government approves funding for the expansion of the Oncology Centre
Next stage of expansion of the regional hospital in Toruń: specialist outpatient clinics

Beata Krzemińska
Press Officer of the Marshal’s Office

18 February 2026