At Cho Ray hospital (Photo: VNA)HCM City
(VNA) – Doctors from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and Viet Duc
University Hospital in Hanoi have worked together to conduct several organ
transplants donated from a single donor.
The donor, born in
1988 from An Giang province who failed to survive a disease, decided to donate
his heart, kidneys, two corneas and skin to save others.
Doctors at conducted kidney transplants on two patients – one born in 2007 and the other born in 1996, and a skin
transplant on another. They are scheduled to perform the cornea
transplant on a patient on February 27.
Meanwhile, the heart
of the donor was transported to Hanoi for a transplant on a patient registered in Viet
Duc University Hospital. With great effort, for the
first time in its history, Cho Ray Hospital had successfully applied techniques
to keep the heart healthy for the receiver and delivered it to Hanoi for the transplant operation.
According to Viet Duc
University Hospital, after receiving the heart, 40 doctors and nurses of the
hospital conducted an 8-hour operation which ended in success. The patient has received the new heart and is recovering in hospital./.
Source: VietnamPlus
