PANO - Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on August 25 to mark its 500th successful kidney transplant and honor organ donors.

Organ donors were honored at the ceremony

The hospital has successfully performed 500 kidney transplants since the first two cases in 1992, according to Nguyen Truong Son, director of the hospital. In 2008, the hospital performed the first kidney transplant from a brain-dead donor. In 2015, the hospital succeeded in a kidney transplant donated by a non-beating heart person. Most of the cases used kidneys taken from alive donors. Nearly 2,000 donors have so far registered with the hospital to give their organs when they die.

Cho Ray is also one of the first hospitals in Vietnam to conduct organ transplants, making significant contributions to the development of the country’s health sector. It also transferred techniques of kidney transplant to many hospitals nationwide.

Translated by Chung Anh