Clinics for Psychiatry Reconstructed

Clinics for Psychiatry is inpatient health facility treatment of the Clinical Centre Nis that performs over 300 hospitalisations and about 7,000 outpatient examinations annually. The capacity of the Clinics is 32 for women, 53 for men and 11 in the daily hospital. With the support of the German Government, Help provided reconstruction and furnishing of the Clinics significantly improving the patient’s hospital stay conditions, patient’s treatment and working conditions of medical staff.

Assistant Professor Dr Suzana Tosic Golubovic, the head of the clinic, said that the renovation enabled a new organization at the Clinics that meets all modern criteria for work in psychiatry.

"Now these are mixed, male-female wards and a hospital stay of patients is organised by diagnostic categories, which we have not been able to do so far. We will be working in full capacity from 1^st January. The hospital stay conditions and treatment of our patients, the work of the staff and the quality of the provided services have been significantly improved. "

Reconstruction included new waterproofing insulation on the roof, gutters replacement, lightning protection installations. Tinsmith works, replaced interior and exterior carpentry (213 windows, 9 portals), reconstruction of bathrooms and toilets with works on the water supply and sewerage network, all the way to electrical installations, switches, and lights. Painting works were also performed. New beds with mattresses and new bedside tables are in the patients' rooms now, as well as the air conditioners, and new TV sets for the free-time space of the patients.

Reconstruction and equipping were carried out as part of Help's project "Migration Management and Support for the Return of Asylum Seekers II", which is part of the global program "Migration for Development" (PME) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationalle Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).