On the afternoon of July 16, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long led a working delegation to inspect the current status and construction progress of Facility 2 of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Ninh Binh .
According to the report of the Ministry of Health, implementing the Government's direction on completing the construction of the second facility project of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Ha Nam (now Ninh Binh) to put into use in 2025 (striving to complete before November 30, 2025), in the past time, the Ministry of Health has regularly inspected and urged the construction site to grasp the progress, promptly resolve problems and carry out some tasks.
The Ministry has allocated capital for 2 projects of 2,458 billion VND; directed 2 hospitals to dispatch personnel to closely coordinate with investors to review and adjust the list of medical equipment to suit the needs and the market, in which it has determined that about 40% of medical equipment will be purchased directly without bidding; completed and supplemented the leadership of the Project Management Board; and approved the policy of supplementing the operating budget of the Project Management Board from the reserve fund.
The Project Management Board has made efforts to ensure project management and operation; the two hospitals have developed an Operational Plan and actively coordinated with the Project Management Board in many work contents (especially purchasing medical equipment), and are preparing human resources and conditions to go into operation.
The Ministry of Health's leaders said that regarding the construction progress of the two projects, Bach Mai Hospital strives to complete the construction packages before August 15, and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital strives to complete before September 15.
The Ministry of Health will continue to direct the Project Management Board to urgently coordinate with the Department of Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue (Ministry of Public Security) in completing the construction, inspection and preparation for acceptance of fire prevention and fighting work; direct Bach Mai and Viet Duc Hospitals to review and propose a list of medical equipment that needs to apply for bidding to ensure meeting the hospital's professional requirements and meeting the project completion schedule.
At the meeting, representatives of contractors also clearly reported on the work being implemented to ensure the progress of the required packages and made some recommendations on financial issues such as: payment for construction of packages according to the technical value of the packages; banks expanding credit loans for the project packages...
Representatives of the leaders of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital reported on the work contents in the Operation Project of the hospital's Facility 2, including urgently arranging human resources, completing information technology infrastructure to connect and unify operations between Facility 1 and Facility 2; purchasing medical supplies and equipment to serve Facility 2 when it comes into operation...
The hospital's leaders also made recommendations to the Government, the Ministry of Health, and central ministries and branches on a number of issues such as: completing the procurement of medical supplies and equipment; promptly approving a specific financial mechanism for the hospital to recruit talented people to serve at Facility 2...
According to Chairman of Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee Pham Quang Ngoc, in order to meet the housing needs of doctors, nurses and management staff of the two hospitals working long-term in the locality, Ninh Binh province has arranged a land fund of about 28.5 hectares to build a housing area in a convenient location with accompanying synchronous social infrastructure.
In early June 2025, the province started construction of 2 social housing projects from the provincial budget (scale of 600 apartments) with a total investment of about 430 billion VND, expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Regarding human resource preparation, Ninh Binh province has directed the province's Medical College to coordinate with Viet Duc Friendship Hospital to jointly train human resources, ready to respond when the hospitals come into operation.
Along with that, the Provincial People's Committee coordinated with Bach Mai Hospital to carry out investment procedures for the construction of Bach Mai University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Nam Cao University Area; carry out investment procedures for a social housing project with a scale of 2 9-storey buildings to serve as housing for students studying at the schools.
Concluding the working session, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long emphasized that the Government is determined and resolute in directing the operation of Facility 2 of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in 2025.
The Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the Ministry of Health, the Project Management Board, hospitals, Ninh Binh province and contractors in implementing the work contents to achieve positive results in the construction progress of the two projects.
In order to put the second facility of the two hospitals into operation on schedule, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long requested that the Ministry of Health coordinate with relevant ministries and branches to remove obstacles in financial and capital mechanisms for construction contractors; pay attention to promoting supervision of completion to ensure on-schedule progress. The project management board needs to closely follow the plan, focus on human resources, time, intelligence, and enthusiasm, and work closely with contractors to implement the work.
Contractors need to be more determined, work overtime, and arrange engineers and workers to speed up the progress of equipment and IT infrastructure packages. In July 2025, the Ministry of Health and relevant ministries and sectors will urgently report to the Prime Minister on solutions to remove obstacles for these two projects./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/dua-co-so-2-cua-benh-vien-bach-mai-va-viet-duc-vao-hoat-dong-dung-ke-hoach-post1049999.vnp
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