Military hospital in southern Vietnam starts construction of $112mn building
Thursday, March 03, 2016, 17:12 GMT+7
Construction of a new building started on Saturday at Ho Chi Minh City-based Military Hospital 175, a long-standing medical facility operated by the Ministry of Defense.
The new building, located at 786 Nguyen Kiem Street, Go Vap District, can house 1,000 beds and will cost VND2.5 trillion (US$112 million), taken from the ministry’s budget.
The project, which covers an area of 70,300m², was launched on the 61st anniversary of Vietnamese Doctor’s Day.
A number of senior officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony, among them Vice President of the National Assembly Huynh Ngoc Son, Deputy Minister of Defense Tran Don, and Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
Generations of the hospital’s medical staff have been yearning for a new building, said Associate Professor Nguyen Hong Son, director of the infirmary.
“We will do our best to make the hospital a formal and prestigious military medical institution that provides the best possible healthcare for soldiers and military officers as well as civilians,” Son said.
In May last year, the hospital began constructing a VND2 trillion ($90 million) orthopedic institute with 500 beds. The combined scale of the two buildings will turn the hospital into a 1,500-bed complex that meets the national standards of a special-ranked hospital.
The new building will be equipped with present-day facilities for diagnosis and treatment, which will offer medical service, transfer of technology, and high-quality human resource training to share the strain on central and top hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City.
Once in operation, the hospital’s main building will have a 5-floor-high foundation and three towers soaring nine floors each connected by corridors.
The gross floor area of the main building is 119,720m² (17,273m² of the basement and 102,448m² of the surface area), with 820 beds.
A separate component for mental, infectious, tuberculosis and lung-related diseases is five floors high, with 8,460m² in gross floor area and 180 beds.
Corporation 319, owned by the Ministry of Defense, is in charge of the project and construction of the building is expected to complete by 2018.
