Doctors at HCM City’s perform transplants using organ taken from a brain- dead man. — Photo courtesy of Cho Ray Hospital (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Doctors in Ho Chi
Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital successfully performed s for five
persons using organs from a on April 20.
On April 4 the 43-year-old donor was admitted to Dong Nai
General Hospital in critical condition following a in Long
Thanh district.
The man had suffered a traumatic brain injury, and doctors
said death was imminent.
Since he had expressed a desire to donate his organs and his
family wanted to make his wish come true, doctors called the organ transplant
coordination unit at Cho Ray, said Ngo Duc Tuan, Director of Dong Nai General
Hospital.
On April 5 a crew of doctors and nurses from Cho Ray went to
Dong Nai Hospital to collect the organs and performed the transplants the same
night.
The heart went to a 46-year-old woman from Binh Thuan
province, kidneys to a 27-year-old woman from Long An province and a
44-year-old woman from HCM City, and corneas to two other women.
It was the third heart transplant done at the hospital, and
doctors from Hanoi’s Viet Duc Hospital assisted, Nguyen Thai An, head of Cho
Ray’s cardiovascular surgery department, said.
All the recipients are stable, he said.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
