Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in the Philippines. (Photo: sggp.org.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – Doctors
from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have assisted their colleagues at Chinese
General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) of the Philippines with using to perform Gastrointestinal
(GI) cancer surgeries.
Thanks
to the technology transfer, doctors of the CGHMC have successfully performed such surgery to treat rectal cancer in a 50-year-old female patient who had
preoperative chemotherapy and transverse colectomy for intestinal obstruction.
Philippine doctors were impressed with the single docking technique and the
that is minimally invasive by doctors at Binh Dan
Hospital.
According to Dr. Nguyen Phu Huu, deputy head of the GI ward at Binh
Dan Hospital, previously, a case of robotic surgery for colorectal cancer at the CGHMC could take up to 6 hours, but now it is only 2 hours and 30
minutes with the guidance of doctors from Binh
Dan Hospital.
Huu
said he will support and guide doctors of the CGHMC to carry out more cases and make presentations to analyse important notes about robotic surgery in gastric and
, making it easier for Philippine colleagues to master more
knowledge and skills of the technique.
According to Assoc. Prof. Tran Vinh Hung, Director of Binh Dan Hospital, in
October 2019, the hospital’s doctors also transferred the robotic surgery technique
to doctors of the Philippines General Hospital.
International cooperation in technology transfer is defined as one of the
spearheads of Binh Dan Hospital in developing it into a centre for training robotic
surgery for hospitals nationwide and in the region, in line with the HCM City’s
goal of building a specialised medical centre in the ASEAN region./.
Source: VietnamPlus
