ZAGREB, November 20, 2020 – Regional Development and EU Funds Minister Natasa Tramisak on Friday presented contracts on EU funds worth HRK 73 million for new healthcare projects to Zagreb’s Dr Fran Mihaljevic Hospital for Infectious Diseases and the Health Ministry.
“The coronavirus pandemic has raised awareness of the need to invest more in the health system, in Croatia and the EU alike. We are therefore using all available money from European structural and investment funds,” Tramisak said at the contract-awarding ceremony.
She said the contracts would help the hospital continue boosting its capacity and procuring new equipment as well as the Health Ministry buy the necessary equipment, such as a linear accelerator for the KBC Rebro hospital.
Tramisak said projects worth more than 3 billion kuna had been agreed for the health system, with 2.7 billion being grants.
The latest contracts are valued at more than HRK 73 million, and almost 100% of the contract value are grants.
The minister said that apart from a HRK 369 million contract signed last week for the procurement of protective equipment, her ministry had asked the EU Solidarity Fund for an additional €39 million if the procurement of additional equipment should prove to be necessary.
The contract for the Health Ministry is worth HRK 23.7 million and will be entirely financed with EU funds.
The contract for the Dr Fran Mihaljevic hospital is worth HRK 50 million, and EU grants amount to HRK 49.6 million. The funding will help adapt part of the hospital infrastructure and almost half of the funds will be used to buy valuable diagnostic equipment, the hospital’s director, Alemka Markotic, said.
