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Update news organ transplant
The first pediatric organ transplant centre in Vietnam’s southern region is scheduled to be put into operation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - 2025).
Over the past 20 years, more than 1,800 patients have received kidney transplants at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital. The survival and living-well rates after 10 years is over 85 percent, higher than other reports in the rest of the world.
The health sector has made great strides in the performance of organ transplants.
The number of donated organs from brain-dead people per year in Vietnam is just equal to 1/110 of the number in South Korea and 1/500 in Spain.
Doctors at the National Military Hospital 108 (Hospital 108) have just successfully performed a liver transplant with incompatible blood types on a 15-year-old girl.
From 100 brain-dead donors, the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital’s doctors have successfully performed 50 heart, 83 liver, 157 kidneys, six lung transplants and many other tissue transplants.
The first heart and kidney transplant on one patient in Vietnam was successfully performed on February 15 by doctors of the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital, the hospital announced on February 24.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital announced on November 17 that it had successfully performed skin transplant from a brain-dead donor.
Vietnamese doctors had to spend 10 hours to transplant the lung of a brain-dead man into the thorax of another man, and then spent many months to maintain the lung and ensure his survival.
For the first time Vietnamese doctors at Cho Ray hospital in HCM City have successfully conducted a renal transplant with a kidney taken from a relative who has a different blood group.
Nam's arms were amputated at the age of 15 due to a chemical accident. In front of the boy's eyes, all the doors to the future closed. That was four years ago, and his life has now turned a new page.
Doctors from the National Children's Hospital and the 108 Central Military Hospital have successfully performed a liver transplant on an 18-month-old girl suffering from malignant hepatoblastoma.
After Mr. T. died in a traffic accident, his family in the southern city of Vung Tau decided to donate their beloved son's organs to give life to others.
When "N", born in 1992 in Hanoi, was in high school, she realized that she was different from her peers.
Truong Thi Nhuong, 71, from Hai Duong province, who has long wanted to meet the person who received her son’s heart, has been granted her wish.
A 71-year-old mother has asked for help to meet the person who received a heart from her son, but she has been refused by the hospital.
The Ministry of Health affirmed that Vietnam now can master organ transplantation techniques, but the number of transplants remains modest.
Pham Van Vuong, 32, from Thanh Tri district in Hanoi, uses both hands to pour out tea into a cup when receiving guests. His arm transplant, which came from the body of a 51-year-old man, has become part of him and he can now feel it and move with it.
With his health and job in good condition, a young lecturer at the HCM City University of Forestry and Agriculture with a doctorate registered to donate his organs after death to convey the message that ‘giving is forever existing’.
Vietnamese doctors have successfully completed the country’s first-ever pelvis transplant on a patient suffering from bone cancer.