The hospital is slated to be put into use by late this year (Photo by Huu Chanh)

Block 1A includes the Outpatient Department, emergency, technical and paraclinical areas, and administrative offices. The Outpatient Department can provide 500 consultations per day.

Block 1B functions as an inpatient treatment facility with integrated services.

In the first phase, the hospital will have 200 sick beds, expected to rise to 500 in the long term.

Many kinds of equipment are being installed at the hospital.

The hospital's inpatient capacity is expected to reach around 50 percent initially, with 8 functional rooms, 12 clinical departments, and nine paraclinical departments.

This is Hanoi's second specialised hospital for children, behind the National Hospital of Paediatrics.