HCM City Plans to Invest $80.8M to Build New Cancer Hospital

Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest VND1.5 trillion ($80.8 million) to build a 1,000-sickbed cancer hospital to reduce the workload at its tumor hospital. The money will be sourced from the city budget and g-bonds, the Thanh nien newspaper reported. Cancer patients and those with similar conditions in southern Vietnam have clogged the city’s tumor hospital, where two or three patients reportedly shared one bed, hospital managers said. HCM City reports more than 5,500 cancer patients a year and the figure is forecast to continue to rise in the coming years, local doctors said.  The city will spend VND600 billion ($31.4 million) to implement more than 100 health projects this year, down from VND1.2 trillion in 2009.