Ho Chi Minh City has plans to establish a centre for paediatric organtransplants, to be based in Nhi Dong 2 Hospital, the hospital’s directorDr. Ha Manh Tuan said on September 5.
At the 10-yearanniversary of the hospital’s organ transplant programme, Dr. Ha ManhTuan said the hospital has carried out 12 kidney and eight livertransplant surgeries on children.
The first kidney transplantwas conducted in June 2004 with the assistance of experts from Belgium,and the first liver transplant came in December 2005.
Mostrecently, the hospital’s doctors successfully performed a livertransplant for a child patient on September 4 this year.
In the northern region, the Central Paediatric Hospital has so far conducted 20 kidney and eight liver transplants.
Associate Professor, Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue – Director of Department ofHealth Care Management (Ministry of Health) spoke highly of theachievements and efforts of doctors and experts in the field in spite oflimited medical facilities.
In Vietnam, the first organtransplant was carried out in 1992 at the Military Hospital 103 inHanoi. The National Centre for Co-ordinating Human OrganTransplants, the first of its kind in the country, was founded at theVietnam-Germany Hospital in June 2013.-VNA
At the 10-yearanniversary of the hospital’s organ transplant programme, Dr. Ha ManhTuan said the hospital has carried out 12 kidney and eight livertransplant surgeries on children.
The first kidney transplantwas conducted in June 2004 with the assistance of experts from Belgium,and the first liver transplant came in December 2005.
Mostrecently, the hospital’s doctors successfully performed a livertransplant for a child patient on September 4 this year.
In the northern region, the Central Paediatric Hospital has so far conducted 20 kidney and eight liver transplants.
Associate Professor, Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue – Director of Department ofHealth Care Management (Ministry of Health) spoke highly of theachievements and efforts of doctors and experts in the field in spite oflimited medical facilities.
In Vietnam, the first organtransplant was carried out in 1992 at the Military Hospital 103 inHanoi. The National Centre for Co-ordinating Human OrganTransplants, the first of its kind in the country, was founded at theVietnam-Germany Hospital in June 2013.-VNA
