This investment will shorten waiting times for advanced diagnostic imaging
The construction of a state-of-the-art Organ Diagnostics Centre at the Marshal’s Office – run Regional Children’s Hospital in Bydgoszcz, featuring two MRI units, a flow cytometry laboratory, as well as endoscopy and ultrasound suites, is one of the most important healthcare investment projects in 2026. Construction work is scheduled to be completed at the end of the year, with equipment purchases planned for the first months of 2027.
“We are investing to maintain a high standard of diagnostics and treatment. Hospitals – especially key ones – must be continuously modernised, which means purchasing the latest-generation medical equipment and expanding hospital complexes,” emphasises Marshal Piotr Całbecki.
“This investment is of great importance because it will improve access to advanced diagnostic tests – magnetic resonance imaging, gastrointestinal endoscopy and ultrasound – and will shorten the diagnostic pathway, particularly for patients receiving outpatient specialist care. This is crucial, as waiting lists for imaging tests remain very long. Importantly, patients of the centre will not require diagnostic hospitalisation. Currently, such hospitalisation is often necessary because many of our patients, especially young children, require general anaesthesia for these tests – they are afraid of the procedures and are unable to remain completely still. The new MRI scanners to be installed in our centre will be equipped with child-friendly animation programmes – cartoons, calming music, films and landscapes – to help children focus on pleasant stimuli. This will allow us to reduce the number of anaesthetics and, consequently, the number of diagnostic hospitalisations. As a result, we will be able to admit other patients instead,” explains Dr Danuta Kurylak, Medical Director of the hospital.
At present, waiting times for specialist diagnostic imaging for the hospital’s outpatient patients are several months, while for adult patients – who will also be able to use the services of the new diagnostic centre – appointments are even more distant.
The new three-storey building (3,500 square metres of usable floor space) will house diagnostic laboratories equipped with the latest technology (two MRI units, a flow cytometry laboratory, an endoscopy laboratory, and an ultrasound unit relocated from the existing building), as well as a two-level car park with 93 spaces. The new facility will be functionally connected to the existing building of the hospital’s specialist outpatient clinics.
The total cost of the investment is PLN 60 million (nearly PLN 57 million this year). Financing is based on our Regional Programme for the 2021-2027 perspective.
Like other healthcare facilities run by the Marshal’s Office, the Children’s Hospital will also carry out a carefully planned expansion of its IT systems. Total investment expenditure at the hospital this year amounts to PLN 76 million.
Investment at the Regional Children’s Hospital
- three-storey building
- 3,500 sq m of usable floor space
- two MRI units
- flow cytometry laboratory
- endoscopy laboratory
- ultrasound unit
- two-level underground car park with 93 spaces
- cost: PLN 60 million
Beata Krzemińska
Spokesperson of the Marshal’s Office
30 January 2026