Hospital equipment ‘outdated’

This is one of the messages in a letter from the hospital management to the Ministry of Health and the Interior in connection with the upcoming Parliamentary debate on a request for additional grants to the hospital.

Interim hospital boss Margit Stórá says that a further DKK 10 million are needed to make the most urgent upgrades to hospital equipment. 

Potential danger

The tools and equipment are reaching their ‘end of life’ stage, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find spare parts for them.

In the letter, the National Hospital management writes that “if they are not replaced soon, we will have an emergency once they break down”.

The National Hospital owns equipment worth a total of more than DKK 200 million.

Yet another extra grant needed

It is not yet clear whether the hospital will be granted money for equipment maintenance and replacement.

The request for a DKK 14 million additional grant will have its first hearing in Parliament tomorrow.

This amount is said to only cover the current day-to-day activities at the hospital, and not hospital equipment.

Translated by prosa.fo