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Vietnam capital city's development plan addresses hospital relocations
  • | dtinews.vn | October 22, 2010 02:17 PM

The Hanoi Department of Planning and Architecture has proposed that state hospitals be built 25 to 30 kilometres outside of Hanoi.

A second base will be built for smaller hospitals that would have difficulty expanding

The proposal was presented at a meeting with the municipal People’s Committee on moving health and education centres to the suburbs.

Deputy Director of the department, Vu Tuan Dinh, said the city planned to allocate 600ha of suburban land for the construction of five multi-functional health complexes, comprising of 200ha in Hoa Lac area in Thach That District, 200ha in Phu Xuyen District, 100ha in Soc Son District, a combined 50ha in Gia Lam and Long Bien districts, and 50ha in Son Tay Town.

Dinh added that the city will relocate or change functions of hospitals which specialise in treating infectious diseases and those unable to process large volumes of medical wastes.

The city also plans to build a second base in suburban areas for hospitals which are situated in places with overloaded infrastructure. This is also applied to smaller hospitals and those which face difficulties for expansion.

After being moved to the suburbs, land area of hospitals at the state level will be used as the city’s health stations.

At the meeting, representatives from the Ministry of Health said that insufficient infrastructure had an impact on relocating substandard hospitals to the suburbs.

Hospital K (or the cancer hospital) plans to open its base with a total investment of VND1.5 trillion (USD75 million) in Thanh Tri District by late this year, however, the power transmission and clean water supply systems are not available here. A new base of National Hospital of Endocrinology in Gia Lam District is also in the same situation.

Hanoi plans to move a range of universities and colleges to suburban areas in the coming years to ease traffic jams, one of the pressing issues in the city. More than 3,000ha of land in Gia Lam and Soc Son districts and several others will be used for building universities and colleges.

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