Cho Ray Hospital

The facility was reconstructed on the area of 53,000 m2 and was re-equipped to become one of the largest hospitals in Southeast Asia in June 1974 with the help of the Japanese government.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital has 2000 beds, employs 2,270 health workers including 500 medical doctors and pharmacists, and provides treatment for about 457,000 outpatients and 67,000 inpatients per year.

[3] Especially, Cho Ray’s Department of Urology was awarded with the record of "the unit performs the most kidney transplants in Vietnam".

[4][5] The International Society of Nephrology has designated Cho Ray Hospital as one of three accredited regional training centers in Southeast Asia.

By 1971, Chợ Rẫy Hospital had 17 departments: external consultations, internal medicine, dentistry, oncology, neurology, cardiology, surgery, anatomy, orthopedics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, neurosurgery, ENT, ophthalmology, radiotherapy, radiology, laboratory, and blood bank and medical supplies.

The Chợ Lớn City Hospital in 1909
Chợ Lớn City Hospital in 1909