First child patient in Vietnam receives kidney from brain-dead donor
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According to Tran Binh Giang, head of Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital, the donor was a 40-year-old brain dead patient. According to his family, he had expressed the desire to donate organs to hospitals when he was still healthy.
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His organs, including two lungs, two kidneys, a liver and a heart, were donated and came to the needy via Ninh Binh Red Cross Organisation and the National Center for co-ordinating Human Organ Transplants. The patient who received his lungs is only 17 years old and was being treated at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi.
The transplant was carried out immediately after the organs were taken out at 9 am on December 12. The 14-hour operation is a success and the patient recovered well in the next 10 days. However, his condition is still serious due to deteriorated health. As of December 24, he no longer needed a ventilator.
The patient who was given the heart transplant is a 60-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy. He was estimated to be able to live for only one month without a new heart. A 63-year-old woman with liver cancer and a 41-year-old man with kidney failure also went through successful operations.
A 15-year-old boy in HCM City who is in the last stage of kidney failure was also given a kidney in time. The boy has been treated for last-stage kidney failure since February at Pediatrics Hospital No 2. He will be able to return to school after six months, according to doctors.
