Bach Mai Hospital, facility 2 in Ninh Binh, is expected to officially open and receive patients from June 26, 2026. On the first day of operation, the hospital will organize free health check-ups for policy families and people with meritorious services to the revolution.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Director of Bach Mai Hospital, said that in terms of human resources, Facility 2 is ready with 1,288 officials and employees. The medical team will be rotated between the two facilities to ensure professional quality, and the hospital will continue to train more resident doctors and nurses to meet long-term development needs.
Facility 2 will operate as a unitary department with the main facility, ensuring the professional quality of specialized, specialized and high-tech general hospitals," Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Xuan Co emphasized.
Bach Mai Hospital in Ninh Binh will officially open and go into operation on June 26 with a scale of 1,000 beds, modern facilities and more than 11,000 technical categories belonging to 36 specialties.
Bach Mai Hospital in Ninh Binh is expected to become a high-tech medical examination and treatment center of the Southern Red River Delta region, helping people not only in the locality but also in neighboring areas to access high-quality medical services.
The hospital also develops a plan to invest in many world-leading modern equipment such as hybrid operating rooms, robot surgery systems and advanced diagnostic imaging equipment, to submit to the Ministry of Health for consideration and approval.
Bach Mai Hospital proposed that Ninh Binh province accelerate the construction of housing for officials, support vehicles to transport staff from Phu Ly station to facility 2, and at the same time complete traffic infrastructure, ensure security, fire prevention and fighting and soon accept the project.
Along with putting facility 2 into operation, Bach Mai Hospital is implementing the Bach Mai Medical College project in Nam Cao University Area, aiming to develop into Bach Mai University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the future.
Expected to be put into use in 2027, the training facility has a scale of nearly 13,000 students. The model combining special-class hospitals and training facilities is expected to create a modern training, research and medical examination and treatment center, contributing to providing high-quality medical human resources for Ninh Binh and the region.
On the occasion of the opening, Bach Mai Hospital is expected to coordinate with Ninh Binh province to organize free health check-ups for people with meritorious services and policy beneficiaries; deploy professional training classes on circulatory arrest resuscitation, patient care, hospital quality management, clinical nutrition for local health workers; and organize online professional consultation activities.
On December 19, 2025, the Ministry of Health held the inauguration ceremony of the construction of Bach Mai Hospital facility 2 and Viet Duc Friendship Hospital facility 2 in Ninh Binh. These are two key national health projects, invested modernly and on a large scale to reduce the burden on central hospitals and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment.
The project implementation process faced unprecedented difficulties due to problems with mechanisms, changes in legal regulations and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The inauguration is an important step to put hospitals into operation. However, after half a year, the second facilities of the above hospitals have not been operating. Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan explained: although Bach Mai and Viet Duc Hospitals, facility 2, have basically completed construction and have modern facilities "like 5-star hotels", they have not yet been able to operate due to a series of legal and procedural obstacles that have lasted for many years.
According to the Minister, the two projects have been backlogged for nearly 10 years, and violations have arisen right from the contract signing stage. Functional agencies must both handle old problems and complete procedures on fire prevention and fighting, construction quality acceptance, environment, radiation, finalization and legal requirements according to new regulations.
