Kherson Regional Rehabilitation Hospital seeks 11 million to repair a department

The renovation of the mental health unit at the Kherson Regional Hospital for Rehabilitation Treatment may cost the budget UAH 11 million.

As stated in the announcement published on the website of the Digital Ecosystem for Accountable Recovery Management DREAM, the creation of a 30-bed Mental Health Unit is an intermediate link between psychiatric healthcare facilities and allows for an optimal combination of types of psychotherapeutic/psychiatric care services.

Photo: DREAM screen shot

The workingproject envisages a major overhaul of the third floor with the following types of work

• replacement of door and window units;
• repair of walls and slopes, painting;
• replacement of window sills and window drains;
• plastering and ceramic tiling of wall and floor surfaces;
• replacement of heating pipelines and radiators;
• electrical installation works;
• installation of fire alarms and fire warning systems;
• installation of Armstrong suspended ceilings in the corridor and puttying and painting in other rooms;
• replacement of internal water supply and sewerage networks, plumbing works (installation of toilets, washbasins, faucets, water heaters);
• replacement of heating pipelines and radiators;
• installation of air conditioners and recuperators. The facility will be accessible to people with limited mobility:
• access to the 3rd floor is provided by two medical elevators;
• doorways are provided with a width of at least 0.9 m, without thresholds and height differences on the way of movement of people with limited mobility and people in wheelchairs;
• a toilet is provided in the building for people in wheelchairs and people with limited mobility in accordance with the requirements of current regulations;
• handles, taps, buttons of electrical switches, electrical sockets intended for servicing low-mobility groups are located at a height of no more than 1.0 m from the floor level;
• the building has a visual, sound and tactile information system (signs and symbols) indicating entrance points, routes of movement for people with reduced mobility, and service area premises accessible to people with reduced mobility and people with disabilities.

At the same time, the hospital itself can allocate only 93 thousand hryvnias out of 11 million hryvnias.

Photo: DREAM screen shot

Since the beginning of the year, 11 facilities have been added to the DREAM Digital Ecosystem for Accountable Recovery Management, which is planned to be restored in 2025. At the same time, the cost has been calculated for only two reconstruction projects: the repair of the Mental Health Unit and the reconstruction of the Vysokopil Lyceum building.

In December 2024, the state digital ecosystem for recovery management DREAM contained 334 projects for the reconstruction of Kherson region. Their implementation required UAH 7.1 billion. The Chornobaiv community ranked first in terms of the number of reconstruction projects included in the system. They registered 87 projects with a total estimated budget of UAH 1.2 billion.

The DREAM ecosystem is implemented by the DREAM Project Office within the GIZ Ukraine Sustainable Society Cluster, funded by the German government and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH." Dream was established and operates in accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1286 of November 15, 2022.

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