Hue Central Hospital wins first prize at ASEAN colorectal surgeon competition

The Hue Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue wins the first prize at the recent through videos. (Photo: VNA)

Thua Thien – Hue (VNA) – The Hue Central Hospital in the central
province of Thua Thien-Hue won the at the recent colorectal surgeon
competition through videos held by the ASEAN Society of Colorectal
Surgeons (ASCS) in Bangkok, according to deputy director of the hospital Hoang
Thi Lan Huong.

The competition was launched by the Vietnam Association for Surgery and
Endolaparosurgery (VASEL) and the surgeon associations of the Southeast Asian
countries from June to August 2023.

The video of the was chosen as the most excellent to
enter the final round, in which it was hailed by professors from China and the
Republic of Korea for surgical skills and accuracy of anatomical landmarks.

The hospital is among very the few large medical establishments in Vietnam
having quantum leap in colorectal cancer treatment and cancer treatment as a
whole. An array of scientific research works has been carried out, while the
world’s most elite treatment and state-of-the-art techniques have been
implemented in the hospital to improve cancer treatment.

Director of the Hospital Prof. Dr. Pham Nhu Hiep is the first in the world to
announce the result of the natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery for
colorector cancer on renowned British Journal of Surgery./.