Japan provides 300 billion VND in aid to upgrade cancer treatment equipment at K Hospital

This funding is provided by the Japanese Government as a non-refundable aid, under the project support agreement.Upgrading medical equipment at K HospitalSigned on the morning of May 28. It is expected that a number of modern medical equipment will be purchased from this aid source, such as PET/CT, SPECT/CT systems, 3.0 tesla MRI machines, 128-slice CT scanners, single-plane digital subtraction angiography machines, 4D CT scanners with simulation functions, digital X-ray machines, endoscopy systems... These are all the most modern equipment currently serving the needs of people for cancer examination and treatment.

On this occasion, the 3 Quan Su facility of K Hospital also resumed operations after 5 years of renovation. Professor Le Van Quang, Director of K Hospital, said that initially, the capital was only enough to meet the infrastructure needs. The hospital's leaders had to ask for equipment support, estimated at 1,200 billion VND. In addition to the 300 billion VND provided by the Japanese Government, the Government also supported the hospital with 790 billion VND to buy radiotherapy equipment.

"Modern equipment helps improve the capacity for diagnosis, examination and treatment at Quan Su facility, reducing the load on other facilities of the hospital," said Prof. Quang, adding that the investment project will last from 2024 to 2026, but it is hoped that by the middle of next year, enough machinery will be equipped.

With the above equipment, Quan Su facility has 200 inpatient beds and 120 day treatment beds, meeting the medical examination and treatment needs of about 1,000 cases per day.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan assessed this as an important project to improve the health sector's capacity to diagnose and treat cancer in the context of the mortality rate shifting from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases. In recent years, the rate of new cases and deaths from cancer has increased alarmingly. In 2022, Vietnam recorded 180,480 new cases of cancer, more than 120,000 deaths. The demand for cancer diagnosis and treatment is increasing.

K Hospital has three medical facilities including Quan Su, Tam Hiep and Tan Trieu, with more than 2,000 medical staff working. This is the final hospital in the North specializing in treating cancer.