Authorities of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have approved a VND4.5 trillion ($212.2 million) project to build a 1,000-bed pediatrics hospital in the outlying district of Binh Chanh, in a move to ease the current overload in inner hospitals. The new hospital will cover 125,000 square meters in Tan Nhut Commune and is expected to help solve the current patient overload at both Pediatrics Hospitals 1 and 2 in the city. The construction of the project will begin late this year and will be completed in 2016. As designed, the hospital will have a basement, a garbage disposal area, a wastewater treatment facility, a transformer station, and some other subsidiary works. It will also have spacious parking lots for cars and motorbikes, a playground for children, and a helicopter pad – for use in emergency reception or transfer of patients from and to remote areas. (Sai Gon Giai Phong – Saigon Liberation Dec 2)
