Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The family of a 27-year-old man in
Hanoi, who was declared brain dead in a traffic accident, has voluntarily
donated all of his as well as his and tissues to patients
needing replacement, according to the Vietnam
National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
The man’s liver and kidneys were transplanted into three
patients at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi.
Meanwhile, his heart was found to be qualified for the transplant into Huynh
Cong M, a 55 year-old patient who suffered end-stage heart failure and six
times of cardiac arrest in the Hue Central Hospital in the
central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
For the heart transplant, doctors had to transport it to Da
Nang by air then to the Hue Central Hospital by car as flights to Hue city did
not save the “golden time” for the surgery.
At 16:40 on January 27, the heart was transplanted into Huynh Cong M and began
beating at 18:15. M now can talk to doctors.
According to
Trinh Hong Son, director of the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human
Organ Transplantation under the Ministry of Health, in Hanoi’s major hospitals
alone, about 6,000 patients need a kidney transplant and more than 1,500
patients are on the waiting list for liver transplant. Over 6,000 people need
cornea replacement, while heart and lung transplants are critical to save
hundreds of others.
In Vietnam, is yet to be accepted
by the mass, hence a scarcity of tissues and organs for transplantation,
particularly those from brain-dead patients. As of August 31, 2018 the number
of brain-dead and circulatory-dead donors reached 223, accounting for 6.6
percent of the total donors. The majority of organs used in transplantation in
Vietnam are from living donors.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
