Vietnam-Cambodia joint hospital will provide benefits for local people
Samdech Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 15 joining with other top Vietnamese officials presided highly over the groundbreaking ceremony of building a 42- million US dollar Vietnam –Cambodia joint hospital in Khan Mean Chey of Phnom Penh in aiming at providing the benefits for heath services to local people and other things such as reducing expenditure of traveling, time and price of stay in Vietnam during medical treatment and check-up.
“The hospital will equip modern health materials and provide health services like original Cho Ray hospital in Vietnam,” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the ceremony event.
“I also asked to Vietnamese side to help train Cambodia human resources of health sectors to local people and transfer the techniques to Cambodian side in steps to contribute to human development of country” he noted.
This modern hospital will decrease number of local people to treat abroad and spend least money and time in term of traveling, stay and treatment,” he added. this hospital initiated during my meeting with top Vietnamese leaders in the past and asked them to build the hospital with Cho Ray style of Vietnam in Phnom Penh, he said, adding that we will have fundamental technical materials of medical treatment and check-up.
He also expressed his sincere thanks to Vietnamese side that allowed Cambodian patients to cross border for medical treatment and facilitated the work without making any difficulties and in urgent cases the patients do not need to ask for visa to Vietnam.
He also asked to Vietnamese side to provide further medical treatment and provide facilitate Cambodian people to treat in Vietnam before this hospital officially opened to use.
“This new hospital will not only provide highly qualified health services for Cambodians but the foreigners who have invested and made business here will also be able access to medical check-up and treatment as they know that Cambodia has international hospital like this one ,” He emphasizes.
“It will contribute to attract and enhance foreigners to invest here after they have confidence for health services in the country,” he noted.
The Cho Ray-Phnom Penh multi-clinic hospital covers an area of 60,000 square meters in Meanchev district, around ten kilometers from downtown Phnom Penh.
Cambodia Health Minister Mum Bun Heng said: the hospital will have two five-story blocks with 500 beds and wards including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, cardiology, trauma and orthopedics, diagnostic tests, and emergency aid. “It is set to be completed in the next two years and create employment for more than 300 people,” he said, adding that at present, Vietnam receives about 250 patients from Cambodia every day; over half of them get treatment at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray hospital. Therefore, the joint hospital will not only help Cambodian people save money and time that they would have had to spend on treatment abroad, but also contribute to improving Cambodia’s healthcare quality.
The hospital invested from Vietnam’s Saigon Medical Investment Joint Stock Company and Cambodia’s Sokimex Company, and it attended the ceremony from Vietnamese former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu, and Vietnamese Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Cho Ray-Phnom Penh Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on May 15.
Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony, Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong said the project is new, vivid evidence of the good neighborly ties and time-honored friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia. After coming into operation, the hospital will help improve health care services for Phnom Penh city dwellers in particular and the Cambodian people in general, Mr Trong added.
Prime Minister Hun Sen at the ceremony highlighted the bilateral cooperation between the two countries and he expressed his ambitions to build peaceful boundaries with neighboring countries in term of development and good security and turn the border zone for economic zones. In each year, two way trade volumes for Cambodia-Vietnam topped 2 billion US dollars and Vietnam invested about 1 billion US dollars in Cambodia and in the future Vietnam plans to invest 6-7,000 million US dollars. Both countries reach to the comprehensively bilateral cooperation for social and economic development, he said, adding that Vietnam invested on building fertilizer factory, rubber plantation, banking, airline, agriculture, hydropower and other. We expected our trade capacity will expand further after the economic growth of Vietnam increased, he noted. Vietnam will become dragon of Asia in future,” he said. ###
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