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project info
Start date: 1 September 2020
End date: 30 November 2022
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 807 519,40 €
EU contribution: 2 386 391,40 € (85%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Ministerul Dezvoltarii Regionale, Administratiei Publice si Fondurilor Europene
intervention field
beneficiary
European Commission Topic

Personal protection equipment for equipping Arad County Emergency Clinical Hospital in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

General objective: The project “Personal protection equipment for equipping Arad County Emergency Clinical Hospital in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic” contributes to the result indicator of the program “Adequate capacity to care and treat cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2/health crisis management”. If, prior to the investments proposed by this project, the care and treatment capacity of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients was not adequate, this capacity was significantly improved through the proposed investments as well as other investments. COVID-19 is a health crisis caused by the high degree of contagiousness and the extremely rapid spread of the disease. After equipping Arad County Emergency Hospital with PCR equipment, 374 medical staff were tested between 1-15 April 2020 and 30 people were positively confirmed. It can be concluded that during the onset of the pandemic the stocks of protective equipment were insufficient. For example, as of 1 April 2020, the stocks of FPP2 and FPP3 masks were zero and that of the suits was 1500 pcs. Medical staff (and not only) felt concerned, unprotected and vulnerable to the new coronavirus, and the degree of concern was accentuated by the possibility of transmitting the disease to both family and patients with other pathologies they cared for, because: • protective equipment was insufficient both in quantitative terms and in terms of type of equipment • inadequate equipment increased the risk of infection as the number of asymptomatic or very mild people who, without being tested, transmitted the virus without knowing • the medical equipment and the existing equipment did not allow the safe medical act to be ensured for medical staff by limiting as much as possible contact with the COVID-19 patient without negatively affecting the quality of the medical act • data known about the coronavirus were few, and the response to the illness of patients was and is unpredictable. Thus, at the beginning of April, the Emergency Clinical Hospital Arad crisis was staffed with 40 medical staff, including medical staff who were working in retirement and is unpredictable. Last but not least, over 120 employees were on sick leave. It is clear that the medical act cannot be done without medical professionals, therefore it is imperative to protect them by purchasing protective equipment specific to each stage in sufficient numbers, medical devices that limit the time of contact with COVID patients and the implementation of additional and far more rigorous hygiene measures both in terms of carrying out the medical act and in

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