The three-story, 16,000-square-meter hospital will contain comparable facilities to a top-level institution in the United States and will be able to attend to as many as 800 patients a year.
Patients will be admitted as determined by their medical needs and not the economic status of their families, Alanís Villareal says.
The hospital will cost 60 million dollars to build and is being funded entirely by private donations.
Mi Gran Esperanza is a registered charity in Jalisco that has been helping children with cancer for 19 years.
Childhood cancer is the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents in Mexico aged under 15. According to Alanís Villareal, a child dies from cancer every four hours.
Some 7,700 new cases of cancer in children are diagnosed each year in Mexico.
The new hospital will include a research department and Alanís Villareal says he is already looking to sign collaboration agreements with similar hospitals in other countries.