A surgery in a hospital in Hanoi

Doctors from the Ha Noi-based National Hospital of Paediatrics said on August 28 that their first bone marrow transplant on a seven-year-old boy was successful.

The patient's body has created new marrow and his white blood cells have increased, reaching 1,300 cells per microlitre of blood, said the Director of the Hospital Nguyen Thanh Liem.

"This is a good signal and doctors can now affirm that the first bone marrow transplant in the northern region is primarily successful," Liem added.

Although seventeen days after the surgery Dang Gia Hung, the patient, has a slight temperature, his mouth is no longer ulcerated, said the Director, adding that at this progress in two or three weeks the number of white blood cells in his body would reach 7,000 per microlitre of blood, a normal level, Liem said.

Hung underwent the surgical operation on August 10. He received donated marrow from his elder sister, Dang Thu Thao. He lives in northern Bac Ninh province.

Source: VNA