VietNamNet Bridge – Four patients are reportedly in good health after doctors at the Viet Nam-German Friendship Hospital successfully transplanted a liver, heart and two kidneys from a donor last Thursday.


HTML clipboard Associate Professor Nguyen Tien Quyet checks the health of a patient who has received a heart transplant at the Viet Nam-Germany Hospital in Ha Noi on Friday. (Photo: VNS)
Two kidney transplant patients, one in Ha Noi and the other in the northern port city of Hai Phong, have been able to walk.

The liver and heart transplant patients are also on their way to a full recovery.


Hospital director Nguyen Tien Quyet said the liver transplant had been the most complicated surgical procedure.


Quyet said the donor, 30, had been killed in a traffic accident.


The hospital employed more than 130 doctors and nurses to perform the four simultaneous operations.


Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu visited the four organ recipients and congratulated doctors at the hospital for their work.

He also commended the relatives of the donor for their permission to go ahead with the transplants.


Although laws allow organ donations from brain dead patients, it has proved difficult to find willing donors because many Vietnamese believe that the dead must be buried with all of their organs intact.


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