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General Ngo Xuan Lich presents a gift to the surgical team. |
The defense delegation included Lieutenant General Le Hien Van, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics; Major General Tran Duy Giang, Director of the General Department of Logistics, and representatives of other agencies of the Ministry of National Defense.
At the meeting, Lieutenant General Mai Hong Bang, Director of the hospital, briefed the defense minister and other delegates on the lung transplant recently conducted by the hospital’s doctors in association with international experts.
According to the report, on February 24, after being informed that a dying person agreed to donate human organs after his death, doctors of Hospital 108 were running against time to make all preparations for the transplant.
For over 40 hours, they applied intensive medical techniques to maintaining the patient’s life to keep the organs viable and transplantable; held inter-hospital consultations with experts from domestic and international hospitals and asked domestic and international experts on human organ transplantation.
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General Ngo Xuan Lich visits a patient having undergone an organ transplant. |
On February 26, doctors of Central Military Hospital 108 ran four operation rooms at the same time to get lungs and other organs from the brain-dead patient. Later, 60 doctors, medical specialists and nurses of the hospital with the support of three French and Belgian medical experts successfully conducted the first-ever transplant of lungs from a brain-dead person in Vietnam in over 8 hours.
Twenty hours after the operation, the lung-transplanted patient was comprehensively and carefully checked, and the results were positive.
At this point, the patient is recovering and can communicate and move while the transplanted lungs are operating normally.
Apart from the lung transplant, doctors of Hospital 108 also helped transplant other organs of the brain-dead donor to five other patients.
After touring the hospital, inquiring after the staff and offering gifts to some patients with serious diseases, General Lich recognized and praised the hospital’s achievements as well as its staff’s efforts. He stressed that Central Military Hospital 108 has made a turning point in the country’s medical development. He also urged the hospital to promote scientific research and cooperation with high-level medical partners from the region and world to improve its healthcare capabilities, medical techniques and skills so as to better serve military officers, soldiers as well as the people.
Translated by Thu Nguyen