Cho Ray Hospital

Bệnh viện Chợ Rẫy (Cho Ray Hospital) is the largest special-class general hospital in southern Vietnam. It traces its origins to 1900 (the French colonial period) and was renamed Chợ Rẫy in 1957; it has been classified as a special-class hospital under the Ministry of Health since 3 February 2010.

It has 2,000 beds on a site of more than 53,000 m², with 35 clinical departments, 11 paraclinical departments and 8 administrative departments/units; it receives about 457,000 outpatient visits and 67,000 inpatient admissions per year — one of the leading medical centres in Southeast Asia, with more than 2,270 health workers (including 500 doctors and pharmacists).

The Chợ Rẫy Cancer Centre opened on 30 April 2015 — a 12-storey building with 2 basement levels and 250 inpatient beds, receiving 500-600 patients per day for cancer screening and treatment; total investment was VND 428 billion from government bonds, together with Austrian ODA funding (~VND 350 billion in phase 1) for equipment.

It applies a multimodal treatment model (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other advanced methods) to optimise quality, treatment effectiveness and cost; its direction is to develop cancer research, international collaboration and technology transfer to provincial hospitals in the southern region.

A large-scale cancer centre (since 2015) integrating surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and stem cell transplantation for cancer treatment.

More than 1,000 radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures and more than 500 liver resections for liver cancer performed (as of 2014).

The Urology Department — the highest-volume kidney transplant unit in Vietnam; it performed the first robotic kidney retrieval from a living donor and the first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant in Vietnam.

Trains more than 2,500 medical students and 600 doctors per year; transfers oncology techniques to provincial hospitals in the southern region.