Description (EN): The common problems of the reproductive health services in the region are multi-dimensional and caused by deficiencies of multiple levels. Integrated development of these services in the Cross-Border Territory requires an integrated, holistic, multidimensional approach based on cooperation and building on partners’ previous experience in both medical practice and project implementation.
This project will implement comprehensive and concertated activities ment to adress the underlying factors responsible for the common challenges, at all levels.
At the supply end – through joint continued, sustained and long lasting cooperation between the partner institution - the healthcare institutions will increase the level of services provided by addressing all dimensions of the services: medical professionals expertise, techniques and medical protocols, improvement of medical equipment, secured system for storage and transmission of medical information. As elements of novelty, during the project a new pre-implantation genetic screening and diagnostic service will be created that will benefit the population on both sides of the border. Based on the results obtained by using the new equipments, project partners will cooperate in elaborating a study on the epidemiological and genetic infertility regional profile. No such study is currently unavailable in either countries.
At the demand end (the population) the project will overcome barriers to access to services by promotional actions meant to inform and increase awareness on reproductive issues and stimulate demand for preventive care and screening.
At the intermediary level, throug joint participation in promotion and awareness events, the project will bring togehter actors from various environments (primary care MDs, nurses and midwifes in rural areas, NGOs, institutions involved with vulnerable groups- who serve as direct channels of communication to users of reproductive health services), able to take complementary but integrated action in order to raise awareness on reproductive health issues and, on the long run, create preventive behaviors.
At strategic level, the study on regional epidemiological and genetic profile and the analysis of the impact of the awareness campaign will provide regional policy makers with data needed to make informed decisions in issuing much needed harmonized regional policies for reproductive health.
Through its jointly coordinated and implemented actions the project will create benefits at multiple levels and will impact all pillars of sustainable development, delivering social, economic and environmental impact.
Within the project new diagnostic, screening and curing equipment will be installed in order to ensure prevention, early identification and effective treatment of diseases in the eligible area. Our activities contribute to equalizing major service level imbalances, and appropriate level of services will be available for all across the eligible area.
The first strategic impact of the partnership is to bring the level of health services to a better position.
The newly installed instruments, the newly implemented methods and the renewed infrastruture facilities will reach the European standards and provide the possibility for the sustainability if the covered diagnostic services.
The turn-around time of the diagnostic procedures will shorten therefore the accesibility to them will be easier for the citizens on both sides of the border.
In some aspects the patient/health care migration will be eased down, on the other hand, however, new possibilities for the mutually exchangable diagnostic services will open for the patients.
Patients at both sides of the border will benefit on the increased knowlegde basement of the collegues involved in the project.
The newly implemented screening and diagnostic tests would largely contribute to a wider scale of health services. The complementary services in the two partner countries would enable a larger spectrum of test options available for large groups of patients. The parallel developments and innovations would be carried out more efficiently as a result of this cooperation.
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Expected Outputs (EN): In general, the successful implementation of the proposed project would result in an improved infrastructure and a better medical expertise and ultimately in improved health care services in the eligible cross-border areas.
More specifically, the renewed laboratories, the improved and up-dated genetic and microbiological services would enable the processing of larger number of specimens, higher cost-effectiveness, higher sensitivity of testing methods and quality standards, and shorter/ quicker turn-around time of the results, altogether, the improvement of patient care through better screening, faster diagnostics and early treatment or prevention.
The newly implemented screening and diagnostic tests would largely contribute to a wider scale of health service. The complementary services in the two partner countries would enable a larger spectrum of test options available for large groups of patients. The parallel developments and innovations would be carried out more efficiently as a result of this cooperation.
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