Vingroup, a leading domestic real estate developer, last
week inaugurated the country’s largest private international hospital in Hanoi,
built in a record 10 months while other private-invested ones remain delayed.
The $100 million Vinmec
International General Hospital will ease pressure on the overloaded health
system and offer high-quality healthcare services for locals and foreigners.
Vinmec is located on a 2.5
hectare campus nearby Vingroup’s Times City Urban Complex, comprising two
basements, seven ground floors with 600 patient beds. It is six-fold bigger
than the French Hospital of Hanoi.
The hospital has 19 departments
with 31 intensive high-tech units and offers single patient rooms, including 25
VIP rooms and two president suites, furnished to five-star standards. The
recorded construction time surprised Hanoi People’s Committee chairman Nguyen
The Thao as many private hospital projects have been delayed for years.
The projects include the $50
million International American Hospital, licenced in 1997 and the $198 million
Kwang Myung Hospital, which is now transferred to domestic Intraco Corporation.
“The development of Vinmec is
not simply an investment, it plays a profound social role, represents a
practical action in implementing the policy of the Party and state in the
socialisation of public health care and helps improve social welfare and
development of the heath care industry in Vietnam,” Le Khac Hiep, deputy
chairman of Vingroup, said.
Hiep said Vingroup is
determined to develop Vinmec to be the top international hospital in Vietnam
and South East Asia. Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said Vinmec was a
milestone for encouraging other private investors to enter the healthcare
sector.
Ngoc Linh | vir.com.vn
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