The Hue Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue conducted 21 organ transplants in August, the highest number ever in a month, according to Director Prof. Ph.D Pham Nhu Hiep.
More than 500 Buddhist monks, nuns and followers registered for blood donation while 150 people put their names on the list of organ donors at a festival in Hanoi on August 4.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will work together to organise a blood donation and organ donation registration festival at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Soc Son district of Hanoi on August 4.
Blood donation and organ donation commitment is among activities to be held during the humanitarian month which lasts from May 1-31 under the theme of “Connecting, Sharing, and Spreading,” heard a press conference in Hanoi on April 25.
Nearly 20,000 people have registered to donor their organs after death so far, a surge compared with that of five years ago, heard an international conference on human organ transplant coordination held by the National Coordinating Centree for Human Organ Transplants in Hanoi on March 18.
The Hanoi Red Cross Association has called on staff members of its units across the city to register as organ donors in a move to popularise the value of humanitarian organ donation in the community.
The family of a 27-year-old man in Hanoi, who was declared brain dead in a traffic accident, has voluntarily donated all of his internal organs as well as his corneas and tissues to patients needing replacement, according to the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
Doctors from the Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital have announced to successfully conduct the first transplant of two lungs from a brain-dead donor on a cancer patient.
Child patients will be given priority in kidney transplants when there is a brain-dead or non-heart-beating donor under a new agreement on organ transplantation between three major hospitals in HCM City.
Nearly 600 people have registered to donate their organs for scientific research at a recent event held at Giac Ngo Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 10.
The number of people registered for tissue and organ donation has remained very small and fails to meet the nation’s demand for organ transplants, said Nguyen Hoang Phuc, Deputy Director of the National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
Nguyen Hai An, 7, from Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem district, took her last breath on February 22. But before she passed away in her K Hospital sickbed, she and her mother agreed that she would give her cornea to people who could use it.
Nearly 1,000 people registered to donate their tissue and organs at a health festival that took place in the northern province of Nam Dinh on November 17.
Hanoi, December 28 (VNA) - The lack of knowledge about organ donation is one of the main reasons leading to the shortage of organ donation sources, according to medical experts.
After nearly 10 hours of operation, doctors at the Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City successfully conducted its 10th pediatric liver transplantation on October 4.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the setting up of a research and development centre for human organ and tissue transplants at 108 Military Hospital.
Vietnam passed a law relating to organ donation in 2006, however, so far the number of clinically-dead patients who have consented to donate their organs has been extremely low.
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