Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital

Hallym University Medical Center (HMC) was designated by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), on December 27, 2007 as a Project Management Consultant (PMC), which would consult the agency's project "Establishment of a General Hospital in Quang Nam Province in Central Vietnam." To follow up on the project, HMC dispatched a six-member PMC mission headed by Dr. Hyoun-Chan Cho, HMC vice president, on January 20 to Vietnam. During a seven-day visit, they would hold a series of working-level discussions on the project with a Korean ambassador to Vietnam, Vietnamese health-ministry officials, and officials of the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee.

The project aims at building a general hospital with 500 beds on a floor space of 33,000 square meters on the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone in Quang Nam Province. If completed, the hospital would have 21 clinics, 10 support departments, and 8 administrative departments.

The purpose of this project is to meet the needs for medical services in the central area which is the most poorly endowed with medical benefits, and to improve the quality of medical treatments through transferring medical technologies and providing medial equipment. HMC will provide training programs for the medial personnel, advise their policies in formulating strategies to improve health and medical conditions in the southeast Asian country, dispatch fact-finding missions, and offer hospital management skills.

"We will do our level best to complete this project successfully as Vietnam has emerged as one of the biggest Asian markets for Korea. We will transfer to the Vietnamese medical professionals excellent management skills, experience and culture of Hallym," said Dr. Cho.