Will restart the "delayed" trillion-dollar hospital project in Can Tho City

On the afternoon of July 11, comrade Tran Van Lau, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City, along with leaders of several departments and branches, came to inspect the current status of the Can Tho City Oncology Hospital project. This is a trillion-dollar hospital project that has been "exposed to the elements" in Can Tho for several years, causing public outrage as reported by CAND Newspaper.

At the inspection, Director of Can Tho City Department of Health Hoang Quoc Cuong said that the project is adjusting the investment policy. If this is approved, the project will be adjusted, then each piece of equipment will be approved and a council meeting will be held to re-evaluate the equipment configuration...

After checking the situation and listening to reports from the Department of Health and the representative of the construction contractor, Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Tran Van Lau said that the investment project to build the Oncology Hospital will soon be restarted. The project uses ODA capital from Hungary, but the loan agreement has now expired, so this source of capital has been cut off. If the ODA capital is adjusted to use domestic capital, the Government 's opinion must be sought before it can be implemented.

Previously, Can Tho City proposed two options: Option 1, Can Tho City proposed the Ministry of Finance to advise the Government and the Prime Minister to support about 1,300 billion VND to invest in completing the project; Option 2, in case there is no budget source from the Central Government, if the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee approves and adjusts the budget of Can Tho City, the 2026 - 2030 period will arrange the above amount to soon complete the investment project to build Can Tho Oncology Hospital. Because this project is not only meaningful to the people of Can Tho City but also to the people of the Mekong Delta region.

The Can Tho City Oncology Hospital Project is invested by the Department of Health, with a total investment of 1,727 billion VND (of which the ODA loan from the Hungarian Government is 56,927,480 Euro, equivalent to more than 1,393 billion VND, accounting for 80.66%; the counterpart capital of Can Tho City is 13,646,520 Euro, equivalent to more than 334 billion VND, accounting for 19.34%).

The project started in 2017 and was expected to be completed in 2022, but the construction progress was delayed. During the implementation process, due to the impact of the pandemic and some objective reasons, the project implementation progress did not meet the requirements, resulting in a delay in disbursement compared to the preferential binding loan agreement, which expired in July 2022 and was not extended, so construction had to stop.

To date, the total value of the volume implemented by the joint venture contractor is equivalent to nearly 300 billion VND, reaching 21.3% of the total volume value. Of which, the construction volume has reached 80%, while the equipment part has not been implemented at all. The total investment after adjustment is more than 1,927 billion VND, an increase of 200 billion VND due to the increase in the exchange rate of Euro to VND.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/y-te/se-khoi-dong-lai-du-an-benh-vien-ngan-ty-phoi-suong-o-tp-can-tho-i774465/