In a visit to Xiengkhouang High School for Gifted Students in Phonsavan town, Xiengkhouang province with leaders of the company, we were impressed by the buildings in modern architecture but in depth of Lao traditions. According to the school’s headmistress, Phonphatso Phapmisay, the school consists of a building for teachers, a dormitory, and two blocks with 16 classrooms to accommodate more than 500 students from 6th to 12th grades. The project was constructed by Coecco Laos with non-refundable aid from the Vietnamese Government.
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Workers of Coecco Laos Company are upgrading Xaysomboun Province Hospital. |
After 18 months of construction with great efforts and responsibility of the company's cadres and employees, the project was completed in March 2020 and put into operation 11 months earlier than the set plan.
Xiengkhouang High School for Gifted Students is a high-quality school of the educational sector of Xiengkhoaang province. It is tasked with nurturing talents at the secondary education level to meet the requirements of quality of human resources for the national construction cause of Laos. With modern design, green, clean, beautiful, friendly campus, the project is seen as a cultural highlight, contributing to the general landscape of Phonsavan town in particular and Xiengkhouang province in general.
Visiting the upgrading project of Xaysomboun Province's Hospital in Phuhuasang village, Anuvong district, we can see the urgent and hectic working atmosphere there. Major Nguyen Dinh Luu, Director of the Construction Enterprise No.10, under the Coecco Laos Company, and project manager said that during the construction process, they encountered many difficulties such as the prolonged and complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it difficult to bring laborers and materials from Vietnam to Laos; the increase in prices of building materials; and nostalgia of the company’s personnel since they had not visited their families for a long time. However, the company's cadres, and employees have overcome difficulties, sped up the construction progress, and shown high determination to complete, hand over the project and put it into use this year.
The upgrading of the hospital was started last February. Once completed, the hospital will have 80 beds and modern technical infrastructure instead of its previous 35 beds and inadequate and outdated facilities and equipment. The upgrading will help improve the hospital’s medical examination and treatment capacity and well serve the medical examination and treatment needs of people in the province and surrounding areas. The project has 20 large and small items including: Examination and treatment area, living space for the hospitals’ cadres, employees and patients' family members; funeral home, entrance, barriers, wastewater treatment system, among others. The main facilities of the project have been basically completed.
For many years operating in Laos, Coecco Laos Company has helped build various cultural, economic, educational, healthcare, and social welfare projects in the country. It has also effectively performed its tasks of economic development and defense diplomacy, doing mass mobilization work, actively helping localities in hunger elimination and poverty reduction, in new-style rural area building and COVID-19 prevention and control. Furthermore, the company has built up the image, prestige, and brand, and left good impression in the hearts of local Party committees, authorities and people. In recognition of its active engagement in projects, the President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic awarded the third-class Labor Medal to Coecco Laos Company.
In a talk with us, Colonel Nguyen Van Nam, the company director, said that the company has been building various meaningful works with safety, technical, fine arts quality and progress assurance, including the military school of Xaysomboun province, Xaysomboun province's hospital, President Ho Chi Minh memorial site in Khammouane province.
Colonel Nam added that the completed projects have importantly contributed to developing the culture, social affairs, and healthcare in the localities and to practically celebrating the Vietnam-Laos and Laos-Vietnam Solidarity and Friendship Year in 2022 and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic ties and the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
Translated by Mai Huong