Cho Ray Hospital performs over 1,100 kidney transplants in 30 years (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)HCM City (VNA) – The Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi
Minh City has performed 1,127 kidney transplants since 1992, heard an event held
by the medical establishment on March 16.
The event consisted of a ceremony to mark Cho Ray’s three
decades offering and a seminar on the surgery.
In his remarks, Nguyen Tri Thuc, director of the hospital,
said Cho Ray is also a pioneer in implementing measures to expand the source of
donor kidneys, including those from brain-dead donors (since 2008), cardiac
arrest donors (since 2015), and ABO-incompatible living-donors (since 2021).
Individuals with outstanding contributions in ‘s transplant activities were honoured at the event (Photo: VNA)The hospital has also cooperated with transplant centers in
the Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), Australia, the US, and Spain,
among others, to send doctors and nurses in study and experience exchange
programmes, he added.
Deputy Minister of Health said up to 62,555
people registered to donate organs in 2022, compared to just 265 in
2014; and Cho Ray hospital posted about half of the total registrations.
The operation, which is becoming a routine technique at many
hospitals across the country, especially Cho Ray, has contributed to reviving many of those patients with organ failure, he affirmed./.
Source: VietnamPlus
