Many hospitals in the city have updated advanced techniques to improve effectiveness of treatment.
Ho Chi Minh City Paediatrics Hospital 2, for example, recently performed a successful liver transplant operation on a three-year-old child who had congenital biliary atresia, a condition in young children in which the bile ducts outside and inside the liver are scarred and blocked.
Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital perform an endovascular aneurysm repair operation. Source: vietnamnews.vn
When she was two and a half months old, the hospital performed a Kasai procedure which removed the blocked bile ducts and gallbladder and replaced them with a segment of her own small intestine. However, she developed cirrhosis and needed a liver transplant.
On October 17, doctors of the hospital’s organ transplant center performed the operation. This was the hospital’s 12th transplant that used a liver from a living person, according to Department of Health.
The Paediatrics Hospital 2 is expected to become a center for organ transplants for children in the Southern region of the country, the department said.
The Health Department is also developing facilities specializing in organ transplants for adult patients, including Cho Ray Hospital, People’s Hospital 115, Gia Dinh People’s Hospital, Binh Dan Hospital and Hoan My Hospital.
This is part of a broader city plan to have professional treatment techniques offered at certain hospitals, in addition to a network of hospitals providing primary healthcare services by 2020.
Under the plan, hospitals specializing in cardiac treatment include Cho Ray Hospital, Heart Institute, University Medical Centre, Thu Duc District Hospital, People’s Hospital 115, Gia Dinh People’s Hospital, Trung Vuong Hospital and Tam Duc Heart Hospital.
The department plans to develop hospitals specializing in other sectors such as oncology, stroke and other ailments.
Developing specialized treatment will attract domestic and foreign patients to the city for health examination and treatment, according to the Health Department.
This is expected to reduce the number of Vietnamese patients going overseas for treatment.
The city has 114 public and private hospitals, 318 health stations, 196 private general health clinics, and nearly 6,000 private specialized health clinics.
It has developed a network of 25 satellite stations under the City Emergency Aid Center to improve effectiveness in first aid and emergency aid for patients and accident victims.
Source: VNA