The first public-contribution children's hospital in the district is set to be built in Jayang-dong, Gwangjin District, Seoul.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on the 28th that it finalized the Jayang 5 redevelopment promotion district plan containing these details through a review by the Urban Redevelopment Committee on the 27th.
Jayang 5 district is the site where the former Postal Service Information Center was located, and it has been vacant since the center's transfer to Naju, South Jeolla, in 2013. In response, the city plans to use the site to create an apartment complex with 1,699 households.
The city decided to build a children's hospital as a public-contribution facility of this redevelopment project. This is the first time public-contribution redevelopment has been used to establish a health care facility.
The children's hospital is slated to have a total floor area of 10,400 square meters across nine floors. It will consist of six departments centered on internal medicine, including pediatrics and adolescent medicine, pediatric endocrinology, and a 24-hour clinic. The facility will have about 80 beds, with 89 medical staff to be assigned, including 11 physicians and 21 nurses.
The city said it will give practical help in expanding pediatric and adolescent medical facilities in northern Seoul, which had been lacking. However, the hospital construction schedule may be adjusted because it will proceed in line with the timeline for the private redevelopment project.
Lee Dong-ryul, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Citizens' Health Bureau, said, "The Jayang 5 district children's hospital is the first public-contribution-based health care facility that will substantially improve citizens' access to public health care," adding, "It is a separate project from the northeastern children's hospital, and we will continue to push ahead with the northeastern children's hospital as well."