Doctors carry out organ transplant to 6 patients from brain-dead donor

The Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital has performed a multiple organ transplantation with organs taken from a brain dead donor, saving the lives of six different patients.

Organ transplant is one of the greatest medical achievements of mankind in the 20th century (Photo: VNA)

Medical workers observe a minute’s silence to honour the donor (Photo: VNA)

The patient with amputated forearms on both sides due to an accident (Photo: VNA)

Concurrent forearm transplant – Vietnam’s latest medical transplant (Photo: VNA)

The young man is happy with newly transplanted forearms (Photo: VNA)

A physical-rehabilitation therapist guides the patient (Photo: VNA)

Doctors carry out lung transplant (Photo: VNA)

Over 150 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, technicians of 108 Military Central Hospital in close coordination with the Central Lung Hospital perform the 4th multiple organ transplant (Photo: VNA)

Lung transplanted patient is dispatched from hospital (Photo: VNA)

This is considered a big fight for the doctors (Photo: VNA)

108 Military Central Hospital is the first hospital in Vietnam and the Southeast Asia region successfully perform a concurrent forearm transplant for a 18-year-old patient (Photo: VNA)

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