Ho Chi Minh City invites businesses to invest in building hospitals

The information was shared by Dr. Vo Hoang Nhan, Department of Financial Planning, Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, at a dialogue conference between health care businesses and the Ho Chi Minh City government, October 4.

6 projects called for investment according to Resolution 181 of the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City include the examination and treatment service area of ​​Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, the Department of Examination and Treatment for Foreigners at Le Van Thinh Hospital, and the City Stroke Hospital. HCM, two high-tech Screening and Diagnosis Centers in Thu Duc City and Binh Chanh District, Practice Hospital of Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine. These projects will be invested according to the public-private partnership (PPP) method. The number of projects will continue to expand in the near future.

“Vietnam has had many successful PPP investment projects in the fields of transportation and highways. We hope to soon have projects implemented successfully and effectively in the health sector,” Mr. Nhan said. The Ministry of Health is developing a draft Circular guiding a number of contents in PPP investment activities in the health sector.

Ho Chi Minh City aims to become a health care center in the ASEAN region with many large projects. In particular, the city formed 6 large medical clusters, including the central cluster and clusters at gateways in Thu Duc, Binh Chanh, Can Gio, and the Southwest region cluster. The health sector will establish a center to train high-quality medical personnel, develop infrastructure and specialized techniques, and promote medical tourism combining modern medicine and traditional medicine. .

According to Mr. Nhan, this requires mobilizing human strength and people’s strength to implement it together. Ho Chi Minh City leaders have approved the establishment of a project to mobilize social resources to invest in developing the health sector, creating policy mechanisms and legal corridors to call for investors to contribute to implementing projects. , bringing the best health care services to people.

The health sector will focus on mobilizing social resources to join leading specialized and general hospitals in developing specialized fields and providing services to the people. The city mobilizes foreign investors with “special incentives”, establishing hospitals with major world brands located in Ho Chi Minh City. This not only helps people access high-quality treatment domestically, but also helps medical staff learn and share experiences and advances around the world.

In addition, in the context of tertiary hospitals becoming increasingly overloaded, the city hopes that investors can deploy and establish secondary hospitals, such as Eye Hospitals, Trauma and Orthopedics hospitals, etc. In the field of cancer, the health sector is calling for investment in building a Cyclotron furnace to produce radioactive isotopes for medical use and investing in a Proton radiotherapy center. The district medical center will cooperate with investors to purchase medical equipment.

The city also invites prestigious medical universities in the world to establish campuses in Ho Chi Minh City or cooperate and link with schools in the area to train and teach. Many areas of the healthcare industry are in need of investment from businesses to open centers such as cardiology, burns, regenerative medicine…

Recently, Ho Chi Minh City has had 116 projects with investment capital from the budget of more than 23,000 billion VND, building many new hospitals, investing in modern machinery and equipment, greatly changing the face of the city’s health sector. . It is expected that in the period 2026 – 2030, the city will have 150 construction and medical equipment projects, infrastructure investment and information technology, with a total investment capital of more than 52,000 billion VND.

Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has 132 hospitals, including 12 ministry hospitals, 32 hospitals under the Department of Health, 19 district and Thu Duc City hospitals, and 69 non-public hospitals. In addition, the city has a system of 310 medical stations and over 7,000 private clinics.