The Health Centre of Rafina – Pikermi was set up in 2012, on the premises of the former Children’s Psychiatric Hospital (Daou Pentelis). Today it serves not only the area of Rafina and Pikermi, but also all the neighbouring municipalities and the wider region of Northeast Attica, the population of which increases significantly in 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.
The radical renovation involved the total remodelling of two wings of the Health Centre, as well as the construction of an external ramp. Following their completion and the supply of the essential equipment, the two renovated wings now house 14 consultation rooms/surgeries, a casualty/accident and emergency department, a septic operating theatre, a radiology and a biopathology laboratory.
The donation was made to meet the urgent need to create new Outpatient Consultation Rooms/Surgeries and to upgrade the medical equipment of the Health Centre, as consequence of its 24-hour operation with regular on-call duties and coverage of accident and emergency cases. The project involved technical works to create the Outpatient Consultation Rooms/Surgeries and to remodel the functioning Regular Consultation Rooms/Surgeries, so as to accommodate the installation of devices for orthopantomography, digital mammography and measuring bone mass density. The renovation and upgrading of the premises was essential prerequisite for supplying the aforesaid medical technological equipment, in the framework of the Operational Programme ESPA 2014-2020.
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.
