Švejd’s pavilion on Žlutý kopec awaits expansion: it will include an ambulance and parking
She dreamed of a career as a ballerina, at the age of thirteen she contracted cancer. Fifteen-year-old Michaela Vronková has been experiencing the carousel of chemotherapy for almost two years today. “I managed to escape thanks to tailor-made treatment. At that time, oncologists used drugs for my type of tumor, “the girl recalls. Quality supportive care is now the goal of the Masaryk Cancer Institute. Therefore, it will support the improvement of patient comfort by completing the Švejd pavilion.
The project will include sixteen new ambulances and 55 parking spaces. It will grow on six floors, include a central registry or a supportive care and genetic counseling center. On the top floor, people will find the premises of health insurance companies and a viewing terrace. “It will include an elliptical atrium forming the main social center of the complex. In addition, the project also solves sidewalks and outdoor parking for twenty-two cars, “said the mayor’s deputy Petr Hladík.
Modernization of the oncology institute
It will expand the existing Švejd pavilion with sixteen new ambulances, several dozen parking spaces or an observation deck.
Improving patients’ access to innovative medicine and improving supportive care.
It will include the construction of the Cancer Prevention Center, which will be built on the site of the former transfusion station on Žlutý kopec.
It will cost less than a billion crowns from European funds, the first patients will probably look at the place in four years.
Brno councilors have recently given the green light to enlargement. “On behalf of the city, they had only one requirement, and that was the planting of flat roofs of plants, which will not be difficult to maintain,” explained Filip Chvátal, councilor for spatial planning.
With the completion, the patient institute wants to ensure better access to innovations and better supportive care. Therefore, the First Contact Center, the Information and Education Center and the Supportive Care Center will become a part of it.
“In the last twenty years, the number of outpatient treatments in our country has doubled to almost a quarter of a million a year. By modernizing the pavilion, we will gain not only the necessary space for development, but also a new entrance to the complex from the roundabout from Vaňkova náměstí. This will help to better organize the arrival of patients, which proved to be important during the pandemic, “said Marek Svoboda, director of the Masaryk Institute of Oncology.
In addition to expanding the Švejd pavilion, the institution will also invest in the construction of a new Cancer Prevention Center in the future. They plan to separate the premises on Brno’s Yellow Hill from the rest of the institute. “Above all, we want to reduce the impact of side effects that negatively affect the return of cured patients to life,” said local spokeswoman Anna Svobodová.
The reconstruction is part of the National Recovery Plan, in which 826 million crowns from European funds have been allocated for the Masaryk Institute of Oncology. Approximately half of the subsidy is nearing the completion of Švejd’s pavilion, and workers will probably start modernizing in two years. The expansion, together with the prevention center, is to be completed in 2025.