THE world’s biggest hospital for treating blood disease will be built in the city’s Jiading District and is expected to start operation in 2017.

The hospital will be capable of carrying out more than 1,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplant surgeries for patients with blood disease every year.

It will also fill in the gap of a specialist blood disease hospital in the city, said Zhou Lei, an official with the Shanghai Cord Blood Bank.