Illustrative image (Source: VNA) to upgrade existing hospitals and build new facilities so that they can cope
with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.
The Tan Kien Hospital Cluster in the outlying district of Binh Chanh gets 74ha
now instead of the originally proposed 54ha.
It will have the 1,000-bed City Paediatrics Hospital, which opened this month and
planned new facilities of the Blood Transfusion Haematology Hospital with
300 beds, with 300 beds, the Forensic Medicine Centre, and Pham
Ngoc Thach Medical University.
The department’s head, Nguyen Tan Binh, told Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper
that basic construction of the cluster is expected to be completed by 2020
though progress is slow because of problems related to land compensation and
acquisition.
Besides treatment, the hospitals in the cluster would also provide training for
personnel from hospitals in the city and the southern region, he added.
Dr Tran Vinh Hung, Director of , said that with the increasing
needs of patients, building a new facility at the hospital’s District 10
complex would be difficult.
It is a specialised hospital that does a lot of research into advanced
techniques in treatment and also trains doctors from hospitals in the city and
the southern region.
The cluster would help the hospital achieve this, Hung said.
Phu Chi Dung, Director of the , said
patients would benefit greatly from the cluster, with his hospital too seeking
to develop advanced techniques in the new facility.
Several hospitals like the Heart Institute and Institute of Malariology and Parasitology
are upgrading and building new facilities also at other locations.
The Oncology Hospital, for instance, is building a facility in District 9 and
will open it in December.
Moreover, the city has upgraded hospitals in the city’s all districts and 322
health stations in wards and communes.
HCM City attracts the largest investment in the country from the
private sector, and has more than 40 private hospitals and 200 general clinics.
The department is also assisting private health establishments especially with
improving their human resources through beneficial new policies like allowing
doctors at public hospitals to work part-time for them.
It publishes the ratings of these hospitals on its website to help people
choose.
Last year the city had 40 beds and 17 doctors per 10,000 population.
The number of patients going to hospitals in the city increased last year to
more than 42 million, accounting for 26.2 percent of the country’s total
number.-VNS/VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
