1,000-bed Paediatrics Hospital set to open in HCM City
VOV.VN -It has been unveiled that construction of the 1,000-bed Ho Chi Minh City Paediatrics Hospital, the city’s third children’s hospital, is on track with the grand opening set to be held later this year.
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The hospital will help reduce the patient overload of HCM City's two existing paediatrics hospitals, which have also been faced with a shortage of trained medical staff. |
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Currently, two or three children often have to share a bed. Now the city will have one more paediatrics hospital offering high-quality health examinations and treatment, a giant step forward for healthcare. |
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The new 93,000 sq. m. hospital is located in the outlying district of Binh Chanh and is being equipped with state-of-the-art medical instruments and equipment on par with any hospital in the ASEAN region. |
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It is expected that the new modern hospital will help reduce the number of children patients that are forced to travel abroad for advanced medical treatment currently unavailable in Vietnam. |
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The hospital will also serve as a main site in the southern region to train doctors in addition to nurses and other medical staff. |
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Medical training is very important because provincial paediatrics hospitals lack sufficient highly qualified doctors and other medical staff and this training will help fill that void. |
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Currently many residents of other provinces bring their children to HCM City hospitals due to lack of qualified physicians in their home province. The training will alleviate the problem. |
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The hospital has an all-inclusive estimated total cost of US$214.2 million (VND4.5 trillion). |
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Currently, HCM City has more than 100 hospitals with more than 32,000 beds, serving an average of more than 31 million patients annually. |
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Of that number, about 1.4 million are in-patients, according to the Health Department. More than 40% are from municipalities other than HCM City. |
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