Football club announces plan to build 100-bed hospital in Pathein

AYEYAWADY United Football Club is investing K5 billion to build a 100-bed hospital in Pathein, in Ayeyarwady Region, the club’s patron said last week.

“We aim to invest K5 billion for the hospital,” U Soe Han Lin, told The Myanmar Times on January 12 at the hospital’s inauguration ceremony.

“The timetable for the whole project will be about 18 months,” he said.

U Yan Win, the club’s president, said the first tasks will be to build the hospital and some shop houses alongside.

“The hospital will have space for 100 beds and we will include shop houses around the outside as well,” he said

He added that the 33.1-acre site is on Station Street, in Pathein’s fifth quarter and the hospital will cover about 5.6 acres.

“The three-storey hospital will include about 50,000 square feet of space on each level and two elevators will be installed, as well as medical equipment,” U Yan Win added.

According to the sketch of hospital, there will be nine outpatient departments, an emergency room, three surgeries, two delivery rooms, a CT scan room, an ultrasound room, an X-ray and a laboratory. Special equipment such as stress testers, echocardiography machines, defibrillators, haemodialysis machines and cardio tocography devices will also be installed, U Yan Win said.

“We plan to install some special devices, such as three haemodialysis machines, because we don’t want patients to wait for a long time,” U Yan Win said.

The shop houses will also be three-storey buildings and each will include 900 square feet per level.

Ayeyarwady Bank and Myanmar Apex Bank have both indicated that they will build branches in the vicinity, he said.

“We aim to finish the shop houses within eight months,” said U Yan Win.

“The club is also aiming to build a shopping mall nearby,” he added.