Up to 3,542 people nationwide have registered to donate their organs and tissue after they die as by December 31, 2015, according to the National Centre for Coordinating Human Organ Transplants.
Hanoi (VNA) – Up to 3,542 people nationwide have registered to donate their organs and tissue after they die as by December 31, 2015, according to the National Centre for Coordinating Human Organ Transplants.
The Centre’s Director, Professor Trinh Hong Son, revealed the figure at a symposium on how to promote the coordination in organ transplants held in Hanoi on January 12, reported the Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberty) newspaper.
Of the figure, 2,348 people have registered directly at the centre and the remainders were recorded at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City .
About 76 percent of the registered people are aged between 18 and 27 and males account for nearly 58 percent of the total.
Professor Son reported that 16 hospitals nationwide have been qualified to perform complicated organ and tissue transplantation.
Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed 1,116 kidney transplants, 48 liver transplants, and 13 heart cases so far, he added.
However, the demand for organ transplant is still huge while the organ source is scarce.
Statistics in the last five years showed that 4,000-5,000 people needed kidney transplants while the number of people waiting for liver and cornea transplants were 6,000 and 2,000, respectively.
ꩲ Vietnam is seeking volunteers, techniques and medical teams to set up a plan on head transplant, Son revealed at the conference.-VNA
Nguyen Thi Thuy Xuan of Long An province is acutely aware of the importance of organ donation: her son would not be alive if he had not received a kidney from his father eight years ago.
Demand for body organs for life-saving transplants in Vietnam is high but supplies are low. This is because hundreds of people with terminal ailments - or their relatives - refuse to agree to donate vital body parts, such as heart, kidneys or liver.
Doctors at hospitals in HCM City and Hue this week conducted six successful organ transplant operations, saving the lives of four people and restoring the sight of two severely visually-impaired patients.
The health of two patients in Viet Duc Hospital, who received liver and heart transplants from a brain-dead patient in HCM City's Cho Ray Hospital on September 4, is improving.
Vietnam now boasts a nationwide healthcare network with 1,665 hospitals, 384 of which are non-public, supported by local commune- and ward-level stations. At the end of 2024, hospital bed capacity reached 34 per 10,000 people, slightly above the global average.
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After such a long time, the law has revealed many limitations, prompting the Ministry of Health (MoH) to gather opinions to amend the law to give more chances to thousands of patients every year.
Currently, cardiovascular specialists from the 108 Military Central Hospital are working alongside a team of Prof.Dr. Jan D. Schmitto, Deputy Director of MHH’s Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery on clinical trials for MCS devices, implanted in heart failure patients either as a bridge to transplantation or as permanent treatment.
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Illustration photo. (Photo: VNA)
