Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City perform a liver transplant (Photo courtesy of Cho Ray Hospital)HCM
City (VNA) – Sixty six have so far been
performed across the country, with 34 donors being alive and 32 brain dead,
according to the Vietnam Society of Organ Transplantation.
The
oldest to undergo a transplant was 74 and the youngest was only seven months
old, Prof Pham Gia Khanh, Chairman of the society, said.
Though
advanced liver transplant techniques are available in the country, post-surgery
care and treatment cannot match what is available in developed countries, he
told an international conference on living donor liver transplant held last
Saturday at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City.
are done at five medical
facilities in the country — Military Hospital 103, Viet Duc Hospital and National
Paediatrics Hospital in Hanoi and Cho Ray Hospital and Paediatrics No 2
Hospital in HCM City.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
