General Truong, who is also member of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, expressed the hope at a ceremony held on March 28 in Hanoi by the hospital to evaluate Vietnam’s first lung transplant from a brain-dead donor, conducted on February 26.
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Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong speaking at the event |
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the event.
At the ceremony, delegates were informed of the preparations and performance of the first-ever lung transplant from a brain-dead donor as well as the patient’s good health condition.
The success of the transplant marked an impressive medical development of Vietnam because lung transplant is the most difficult technique. As a result, Vietnam has sealed a new position in the global map of organ transplants.
In his speech, on behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, General Truong hailed the hospital for their prominent accomplishments and emphasized its success in organ and tissue transplants. He said the aforementioned transplant and smooth coordination with other civilian and military hospitals in organ transplants for patients in the North and South showed the mettle of the hospital’s staff mettle, high level of expertise, and ability to master advanced sciences.
The General tasked the hospital to boost scientific research and postgraduate training programs and expand international cooperation as well as build a general strategy to develop the hospital as an international-standard-achieving unit, deserving of the trust from the Party, State, Army and people.
He wished the hospital to successfully fulfill all assigned missions.
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At the ceremony to honor Major Le Hai Ninh, the brainstem-dead donor who had donated his heart, lung, kidneys, cornea to benefit six other patients, and his relatives |
Speaking at the event, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, head of the Vietnam Human Bodies Donation Mobilization Association, acknowledged the great efforts of the hospital’s physicians, saying that the transplant demonstrates the good team-working, thorough preparations and high-level techniques.
Tien also noted that the successful multi-organ transplants showed the good military-civilian medical coordination.
Fittingly, the hospital organized a ceremony to honor Major Le Hai Ninh, the brainstem-dead donor who had donated his heart, lung, kidneys, cornea to benefit six other patients, and his relatives.
Translated by Mai Huong