Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The family of a 27-year-old man inHanoi, who was declared brain dead in a traffic accident, has voluntarilydonated all of his internal organs as well as his corneas and tissues to patientsneeding replacement, according to the VietnamNational Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
The man’s liver and kidneys were transplanted into threepatients at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi.
Meanwhile, his heart was found to be qualified for the transplant into HuynhCong M, a 55 year-old patient who suffered end-stage heart failure and sixtimes of cardiac arrest in the Hue Central Hospital in thecentral province of Thua Thien-Hue.
For the heart transplant, doctors had to transport it to DaNang by air then to the Hue Central Hospital by car as flights to Hue city didnot save the “golden time” for the surgery.
At 16:40 on January 27, the heart was transplanted into Huynh Cong M and beganbeating at 18:15. M now can talk to doctors.
According toTrinh Hong Son, director of the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for HumanOrgan Transplantation under the Ministry of Health, in Hanoi’s major hospitalsalone, about 6,000 patients need a kidney transplant and more than 1,500patients are on the waiting list for liver transplant. Over 6,000 people needcornea replacement, while heart and lung transplants are critical to savehundreds of others.
In Vietnam, organ donation is yet to be acceptedby the mass, hence a scarcity of tissues and organs for transplantation,particularly those from brain-dead patients. As of August 31, 2018 the numberof brain-dead and circulatory-dead donors reached 223, accounting for 6.6percent of the total donors. The majority of organs used in transplantation inVietnam are from living donors.-VNA
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