A patient recovers from a (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Doctors
at the in Hanoi successfully performed its 1,000th
kidney transplant in late September.
The operation lasted for
three hours. Ten days later, the patient remains in a stable condition and will
soon be discharged.
Since its first renal
transplant in 2002, the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital has carried out 122
operations of this kind from , or 12 percent.
The hospital is the leading
facility in the country for multi-organ transplants. It also supports other
facilities and contributes to saving the lives of many patients through the use
of modern technology./.
Source: VietnamPlus
