Covering an area of over 40,000 square metres, the new hospital is expected to be completed by 2015 at an estimated cost of VND921 billion, to provide health care for children in Can Tho city and Mekong Delta provinces and act as a training facility for students from medical universities and colleges in the region. 

Director of Can Tho Children’s Hospital Le Hoang Son said the old hospital, established in 1979 with only 250 beds, is overloaded, thus the new hospital with modern infrastructure and equipment will meet the health care needs for children in the city as well as the Mekong Delta region.