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• Hospital overload to end in 2015

• Minister proposes solutions to hospital overload

PM Dung made the request at an inaugural ceremony for a new facility of the Vietnam national cancer hospital in Tan Trieu commune, Hanoi’s outlying district of Thanh Tri, on August 19.

In the first phase, the 1000-bed Tan Trieu facility, which costs US$47 million, put the first 300 beds into service. It is expected to help relieve patient overload for its managing hospital, the national cancer hospital, locally known as hospital K.

According to Director of hospital K, Dr. Bui Dieu, patient overload at hospital K has become serious as up to 4,000 people come everyday for check-up and treatment services.

Addressing the event, PM Dung acknowledged that patient overload in central-level hospitals has sparked concerns for the Government, the health sector and people nationwide and affirmed the government’s due attention to the issue.

He asked the Ministry of Public Health to quickly submit a plan to address hospital overload in the time to come while continuing to instruct hospital K to speed up the second phase of Tan Trieu facility for completion by 2013 as planned.