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PM approves new HCM City hospital

The Prime Minister has given the green light for building Cho Ray Hospital No 2 in HCM City with funding from ODA (official development assistance) loans from Japan.
The Prime Minister has given the greenlight for building Cho Ray Hospital No 2 in HCM City with funding fromODA (official development assistance) loans from Japan.

The1,000-bed hospital, to be located on a 7ha area in Le Minh Xuan communein Binh Chanh district, is meant to ease the overload on existing publichospitals.

The hospital, to be also called Vietnam–Japan Friendship Hospital, is estimated to cost 4 trillion VND (287.9 million USD).

The PM has instructed the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Finance and Health to complete procedures for its construction.

LastSeptember the city People's Committee had ordered relevant authoritiesto wrap up formalities and speed up site clearance for the project.

Thecity Department of Transport was ordered to develop infrastructure andconnect the proposed location with provincial road 10.

The existing Cho Ray Hospital, founded and named Hospital Municipal de Cholon by the French in 1900, is located in District 5.

The 2,400-bed facility was renamed Cho Ray Hospital in 1957.

Between1971 and 1974, with non-refundable aid from Japan, the Sai Gon regimebuilt Cho Ray Hospital into an 11-storey facility on a 53,000sq.m area,making it the most modern hospital in Southeast Asia at the time.-VNA
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