VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital and the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) has signed a Record of Discussion for a project to improve hospital management competency in southern Viet Nam.

The new Cho Ray Hospital being in HCM City’s Binh Chanh District, which is being built with ODA loans from Japan, is expected to ease patient overload at the older hospital. VNS Photo

The Record of Discussion is signed by Dr Nguyen Truong Son, director of Cho Ray Hospital, and Yasuo Fujita, chief representative of JICA Viet Nam.

The project is expected to improve the provision of health care services at Cho Ray Hospital and the Cho Ray Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Hospital, which is under construction using an ODA loan from Japan.

The project will help provide advanced medical services and health care at the two hospitals to residents in southern Viet Nam.

The hospitals are expected to improve medical services with a focus on patients, enhance measures for infection control at international level and strengthen co-operation among the hospitals in the South.  

The project beneficiaries include staff at Cho Ray Hospital, Cho Ray Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Hospital in HCM City and related hospitals in the South.

The project is in line with the goals of the Ministry of Health in improving hospital management competency for hospitals in southern Viet Nam.

The Cho Ray Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Hospital was approved last year by former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, at a cost of about US$287.9 million, using Japanese ODA loans.

Located on a 7-ha area in Binh Chanh District, the 1,000-bed hospital will help ease overload at the existing hospital.

Source: VNS