The Mekong Delta province of Can Tho People ’s Committee held a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new facility for Can Tho Children’s Hospital on June 1.
The Mekong Delta province of Can Tho People ’s Committee held agroundbreaking ceremony to build a new facility for Can Tho Children’sHospital on June 1.
Covering an area of over 40,000square metres, the 921 billion VND hospital will be the most modernhospital in the Mekong Delta region, with nine floors, 500 patient bedsand various wards.
The new hospital is expectedto be completed by 2015, to provide health care for children in Can Thocity and Mekong Delta provinces and act as a training facility forstudents from medical universities and colleges in the region.
Director of Can Tho Children Hospital, Le Hoang Son said the oldhospital, established in 1979 with only 250 beds, is overloaded, thusthe new hospital with modern infrastructure and equipment will meet thehealth care needs for children in the city as well as the Mekong Deltaregion./.
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