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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