Health Centre Of Rafina – Pikermi

The Rafina–Pikermi Health Center has been operating as a health center since 2012 on the premises of the former Attica Child Psychiatric Hospital (Daou Penteli). Today, it serves not only the areas of Rafina and Pikermi, but also all neighboring municipalities and the wider region of Northeastern Attica, whose population increases significantly during the summer months.

The Non-profit Civil Company AEGEAS, aware of the Health Centre’s difficult role of providing primary medical care for the catchment area of Northeast Attica and the urgent need to enlarge its premises by adding new consultation rooms/surgeries and modern equipment, has made a series of important donations. Their completion means that the Health Centre is now a multifunctional primary medical unit with modern equipment, housed in premises of almost 1,500 square metres. In addition, the Centre was included in the campaign against the covid-19 pandemic, as a treatment centre for patients.

DONATIONS OF THE NON-PROFIT CIVIL COMPANY AEGEAS

• Renovation and operational upgrading of the Regular Consultation Rooms/Surgeries.
• Creation of new Outpatient Consultation Rooms/Surgeries and remodelling of part of the Regular Consultation Rooms/Surgeries in order to install specialist medical devices.
• Supply of medical and technological equipment for the Cardiology Unit of the Outpatient Consultation Rooms/Surgeries and of an ISOBOX container for the Paediatric Department and the examination of covid-19 patients.
• Supply of equipment for the amphitheatre.
• Installation of equipment to secure the network and of a microphone system.

RENOVATION AND FUNCTIONAL UPGRADING OF THE REGULAR CONSULTATION ROOMS/SURGERIES

The radical renovation works involved the complete reconfiguration of two wings of the Health Center, as well as the construction of an external access ramp. Following their completion and the procurement of the necessary equipment, the two renovated wings now accommodate 14 outpatient clinics, an emergency department, a septic operating theatre, and radiology and biopathology laboratories.

The implementation of the donation arose from the urgent need to create new outpatient clinic spaces and to upgrade the Health Center’s medical and technological equipment, as a consequence of its expanded 24-hour operation with regular on-call duty and emergency coverage. Technical works were carried out for the creation of new outpatient clinic spaces and the reconfiguration of part of the operating Regular Clinics, in order to enable the installation and operation of an orthopantomograph, a digital mammography unit, and a bone density measurement system. The renovation and upgrading of the premises constituted a necessary prerequisite for the procurement of the above-mentioned medical and technological equipment within the framework of the NSRF (ESPA) 2014–2020 Operational Programme.

Under the umbrella of the same donation, the Cytological and Orthopedic clinics were moved to new premises of area 300 square metres, to which were added an office of a Social Worker, a Gynaecology Consultation Room/Surgery and an Examination Room, an On-call room, as well as an Office for the EKAB ambulance crew.