Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital perform an endovascular aneurysm repair operation (Photo courtesy of Binh Dan Hospital)specialised hospitals with advanced techniques to meet increased demand for
and treatment of local residents and foreigners.
Many hospitals in the
city have updated advanced techniques to improve effectiveness of treatment.
HCM City Paediatrics
Hospital 2, for example, recently performed a successful liver
on a three-year-old child who had congenital biliary
atresia, a condition in young children in which the bile ducts outside and
inside the liver are scarred and blocked.
When she was two and a
half months old, the hospital performed a Kasai procedure which removed the
blocked bile ducts and gallbladder and replaced them with a segment of her own
small intestine. However, she developed cirrhosis and needed a liver
transplant.
On October 17, doctors
of the hospital’s organ transplant centre performed the operation. This was the
hospital’s 12th transplant that used a liver from a living person, according to
Department of Health.
The Paediatrics Hospital
2 is expected to become a centre for organ transplants for children in the
southern region of the country, the department said.
The Health Department is
also developing facilities specialising in organ transplants for adult
patients, including Cho Ray Hospital, People’s Hospital 115, Gia Dinh People’s
Hospital, Binh Dan Hospital and Hoan My Hospital.
This is part of a
broader city plan to have professional treatment techniques offered at certain
hospitals, in addition to a network of hospitals providing primary healthcare
services by 2020.
Under the plan,
hospitals specialising in cardiac treatment include Cho Ray Hospital, Heart
Institute, University Medical Centre, Thu Duc District Hospital, People’s
Hospital 115, Gia Dinh People’s Hospital, Trung Vuong Hospital and Tam Duc
Heart Hospital.
The department plans to
develop hospitals specialising in other sectors such as oncology, stroke and
other ailments.
Developing specialised
treatment will attract domestic and foreign patients to the city for health
examination and treatment, according to the Health Department.
This is expected to
reduce the number of Vietnamese patients going overseas for treatment.
The city has 114 public
and private hospitals, 318 health stations, 196 private general health clinics,
and nearly 6,000 private specialised health clinics.
It has developed a
network of 25 satellite stations under the City Emergency Aid Centre to
improve effectiveness in first aid and emergency aid for patients and accident
victims.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
