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Vietnam’s most modern children’s hospital goes into operation
  • | Nhan Dan | January 17, 2017 12:03 PM
The Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital was officially put into operation on January 16. It is the third children’s hospital in the southern hub and the most modern of its kind in Vietnam so far.
 

The Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital

Covering an area of 12ha in Binh Chanh District, the facility features a state-of-art and the country’s largest diagnosis and treatment space with more than 100 examination rooms. In addition, it also has modern surgery and sample transportation systems.

The hospital includes ten functional rooms and 39 clinical and subclinical departments. It is also the first Vietnamese hospital to be equipped with a modern extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system, a Hybrid operating room for cardiovascular surgeries, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine and a 256-slice computed tomography (CT) system.

In particular, in the field of paediatric oncology, it is also the first hospital with a paediatric nuclear medicine and radiation therapy department dedicated to child patients.

Construction for the medical facility was started in December 2014 with a total investment of VND4.5 trillion (US$198 million). The 1,000-bed hospital is one of those in the high-tech medical zone under the city’s master plan for its healthcare network by 2020.

According to the deputy director of the hospital, Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, the hospital will receive approximately 1,000-2,000 patients a day in its initial operational scale, helping reduce overloads at other children’s hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City. Next April, all departments and 1,000 beds at the hospital will be in full operation.

According to Dr. Truong Quang Dinh, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital, in addition to key staff transferred from Children’s Hospitals 1 and 2, in its initial operational phase, the hospital is to receive technical assistance and technology transfers from other major hospitals in the city.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department has also prepared human resources for the hospital over the past three years with more than 200 trained doctors practising at Children’s Hospitals 1 and 2.

It is developed with a focus on advanced techniques in paediatric presence for the first time in Vietnam, while collaborating with the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine and the City University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics to become a training base in accordance with the policy from the health sector on the university-hospital model.

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