Minister of National Development Zsuzsanna Németh laid the foundation stone of the new clinical block of the University of Szeged on 15 May 2012.

In the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan, two projects will be implemented in the Clinical Centre of the University of Szeged. One of them will be a new 265-bed facility to be erected next and connecting to the current 410-bed New Clinic, including the reconstruction and modernisation of the existing edifice. The other is the improvement of the university’s emergency health care unit into n up-to-date 19-bed department offering practically full-scale professional service in order to create the conditions of one-stop-shop emergency health care for the entire region.

Minister for National Development Zsuzsanna Németh attended the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone as a special guest, accompanied by Minister of State for Health Care Miklós Szócska of the Ministry of Human Resources, who also gave an address. “The hospital investments made at the centre of Csongrád county as well as various other sites prove that health care is developing and is in progress in Hungary”, he stressed. According to the plans, the project worth an aggregate of HUF 12.3 billion and invested into the improvement of the Szent-Györgyi Albert Clinical Centre of the University of Szeged may be completed by the end of 2013.

(Ministry of National Development , Department of Communication)