Doctors at Bach Mai General Hospital discharged a prematurely born baby after three months of care on Dec. 20.

The 700-gramme baby was rushed to Bach Mai Hospital on September 11 after her mother went into labour just 28 weeks into her pregnancy. Emergency surgery at a district hospital in central Nghe An province failed to save the 28 year old woman who died of septicaemia.

The baby now weighs 3.1 kilos and could drink bottled milk like any other baby, doctors said.

Earlier this month, doctors at the National Obstetrics Hospital saved a 500-gramme new-born, the smallest premature baby to survive in Vietnam./.