INFORMATION PORTAL OF THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE OF THE KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE Region IN TORUŃ

Relaxation and therapy rooms, a music room, soothing colors, cozy decor, new furniture and perfect cleanliness – this is what the children’s ward at the regional psychiatric hospital in Świecie looks like after a major renovation. Currently, the investment-completing acceptance of rooms in the attic, where, among other things, the rooms of the hospital school have been located, is underway.

– The Regional Hospital for the Mentally Ill and Neurologically Handicapped operates in a historic 19th-century complex, which is under preservation, which makes the consistent modernization that has been carried out here for years quite a challenge. However, we can say with satisfaction that although much still lies ahead, the effects of this modernization are visible and felt by patients and staff. I am also pleased that we can announce further investment projects, the financing for which has already been determined, says Marshal Piotr Całbecki.

This new investment is the construction of a mental health center implementing the idea of modern community psychiatry. The base for its creation will be unused or currently performing technical functions pavilions in the center of the treatment center complex. After a major adaptive renovation, a psychiatric day ward and a community care unit will find a place there. As part of the same project, a complex of facilities will be built for, among other things, Horticultural therapy, or occupational therapy based on horticulture, surrounded by vegetable gardens and flower beds. The project documentation, which was commissioned and financed by the Marshal’s company Kujawsko-Pomorskie Inwestycje Medyczne, is already ready. The implementation (the assumed cost is PLN 36.6 million) will be financed under our regional program European Funds for Kuyavia in Pomerania 2021-2027.

The Świecie psychiatric hospital is the oldest and longest-operating facility of its kind in Poland. It currently treats patients with mental disorders and addictions. An addiction treatment clinic also operates here, conducting, among other things, psychotherapy (for addicts, co-addicts and the addict’s loved ones). The comprehensive modernization of the facility, which has been carried out systematically for many years (successively all pavilions, kitchen, hospital networks, administrative and technical buildings, energy modernization, purchases of equipment and supplies), has been financed with funds from our regional programs of previous perspectives and our medical package of the century, i.e. the Marshal’s modernization program for all provincial clinics.

Beata Krzeminska

Spokesperson for the Marshal’s Office

December 3, 2024.