On the afternoon of June 5, Mr. Nguyen Truc Son - Permanent Vice Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Ben Tre Province as head of the delegation - inspected the construction progress of the Ben Tre Provincial General Hospital project.
Reporting to the mission, Mr. Bui Van Hiep - Director of the Management Board of the Construction Investment Project on Civil and Industrial works in Ben Tre province said that the construction bidding package has a contract value of VND 879.3 billion, started on December 28, 2024. Up to now, the construction unit has completed the foundation and is under construction of the work, the value of the implementation volume is estimated at 5.2%.
"According to the contract, the construction package is expected to finish the rough part of the project by 2025 (estimated to be about 350 billion VND, equivalent to about 39.8% of the contract value). Copper, equivalent to about 75% of the contract value), "Mr. Hiep said.
Concluding the inspection, Mr. Nguyen Truc Son - Permanent Vice Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee - highly appreciated the efforts of the construction unit, compared to the inspection in March 2025, the implementation progress is guaranteed. However, the implementation progress and disbursement rate are not synchronous, the disbursement rate is still low.
Permanent Vice Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee proposed the construction unit to mobilize all resources to implement to ensure the set schedule (expected 18 months), encourage speeding up and shorten the completion time. The consulting unit needs to stick to the field, monitor throughout the construction process, when a problem arises, it is necessary to immediately report to the investor to promptly solve it, not to delay the construction progress of items.
For equipment bidding package, the Standing Vice Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee assigns the Management Board of Investment Project to build civil and industrial works in Ben Tre province urgently implement the next steps when the Bank gives no objections, completing documents and procedures in August25. At the same time, it is also required that the Department of Finance shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Management Board of Investment Projects to build civil and industrial works, related branches to consider and advise and submit according to their competence for arising during the project implementation process.
Earlier in 2015, the People's Committee of Ben Tre Province issued Decision No. 1594 on approving the content of the investment project on the construction of Ben Tre General Hospital with preferential loans of the Korean Government. The project has a total investment of more than 1,658 billion dong, of which, the preferential credit loan supports the development of the Korean Government more than 1,331 billion dong. This project has been approved by the Prime Minister to extend the disbursement time for the loan agreement until December 31, 2026.
