VietNamNet Bridge – The list of the investors, foreign and
domestic, who decide to inject money in the healthcare sector, has been
prolonged.
The success of the Vietnam-France
Hospital has prompted more and more investors to pour money into high grade
hospitals which aim to serve high income earners in Vietnam.
Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon has
reported that two foreign and one domestic investors would join forces to build
a big hospital in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai province.
The Dong Nai provincial Planning
and Investment Department has confirmed that it has granted an investment
business certificate to the project on a hospital on the Highway No. 51.
The hospital, called Shin Mark,
which has the total investment capital of $80 million would be developed by
Radiant City Limited from Samoa island, which contributes 70 percent of
capital, Shink Mark from Taiwan which contributes 20 percent, and a Vietnamese
company – Tin Nghia, which contributes 10 percent of capital.
In Hanoi, the construction of Anh
Sinh Hospital in Tu Liem district was kicked off in May 2011. This would be a
high grade hospital – hotel, comprising of 500 beds. It is expected to have the
total investment capital of VND2 trillion, including the VND1 trillion for the
first phase of the project.
Especially, the An Sinh Hospital
in Hanoi is believed to walk abreast with the international hospitals in
Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.
A report showed that Vietnamese
spend billions of dollars a year to go abroad to have healthcare services.
Experts believe that these would be the potential targeted clients of An Sinh
Hospital, once it becomes operational.
In 2012, Vinmec, a hospital in
Hanoi, developed by Vingroup, became operational after a short time of
construction of one year. This is a high grade hotel-hospital with modern
facilities, high grade equipments and high end services and 500 beds.
With the powerful financial
capability, Vingroup has invited the leading experts in their fields in Vietnam
and overseas to work for Vinmec.
Singaporean Parkway healthcare
group is nearly completing its steps to put the Thanh Do International Hospital
in Binh Tan district in HCM City, capitalized at $80 million, into operation in
early 2013.
The manager of the hospital is
Parkway, one of the leading Asian healthcare groups with a large network of 16
hospitals and 3,400 beds throughout Asia.
A well-known name from Germany,
TSB Technology Systems Business AG, is also eyeing the Hanoi and HCM City
markets, the two biggest cities where dwellers have medium and high incomes,
planning to build an international hospital there.
However, though investors have
been pouring their money into the healthcare sector, believing this is a
lucrative business field, not all of them have succeeded.
Tran Quoc Khoa, a senior official
of the Ministry of Health, said on Dau tu that investors meet a lot of
difficulties when investing in the sector. In general, the investment rate in
the sector is very high, while it will always take long time to take back the
investment capital. This means that the investors have to have long term huge
capital, while the hospitals need to be managed by experienced experts.
According to Khoa, Vietnam
welcomes the investments in the healthcare sector. However, after tens of years
of attracting investments into the sector, Vietnam now only has six 100 percent
foreign invested hospitals with the total registered capital of $94 million,
14,354 small scaled foreign invested clinics and 130 non-state domestic owned
hospitals.
The representative of a medical
equipment supply company also said that a lot of hospitals have been opened,
because the Vietnamese market is too attractive. According to the Ministry of
Health, about 40,000 Vietnamese go abroad to enjoy healthcare services, where
they spend about 2 billion dollars.
Compiled by C. V
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