New Martini Clinic building: 2500 prostate operations per year
After a good four years of construction, the Hamburg Martini-Klinik, a private prostate cancer center at Eppendorf University Hospital, has taken over its new building. "The Martini-Klinik is the world's number one in the treatment and research of prostate cancer," said Science Senator Katharina Fegebank (Green Party) at the ceremonial handover of the keys on Wednesday. The specialist clinic, which was founded in 2005 with just eight beds, will be able to treat 100 inpatients in future. The new building, which cost 86 million euros, is due to open in early summer next year.
According to a spokeswoman, more than 2,500 prostate operations are carried out at the clinic every year. 2700 patients are treated as inpatients and a further 5000 as outpatients. The new building comprises four wards. There are eight operating theaters equipped for robot-assisted systems.
At the ceremony, three former patients expressed their thanks to the doctors and nursing staff at the Martini-Klinik: The two former national handball players Ulrich and Michael Roth as well as the former president of HSV, Bernd Wehmeyer. They appealed to the men to take advantage of preventive examinations in order to avoid an insidious cancer.
The clinic has treated patients from all over Germany and abroad in recent years, said the Medical Director, Prof. Markus Graefen. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the group of 40 to 70-year-old men will comprise more than 10.7 million by 2040, he said. An increase in the number of patients is therefore to be expected.
The new building of the Martini-Klinik, with its advanced facilities including eight operating theaters equipped for robot-assisted systems, will undoubtedly contribute to the continuing success in prostate cancer treatments and surgeries, with over 2500 operations performed annually. Moreover, the clinic's crucial role in medicine extends beyond prostate cancer, as it offers preventive examinations to reduce the risk of this insidious disease, treating thousands of patients annually both as inpatients and outpatients.
Source: www.dpa.com
