Cho Ray Hospital performs over 1,100 kidney transplants in 30 years
The Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has performed 1,127 kidney transplants since 1992, heard an event held by the medical establishment on March 16.
Cho Ray Hospital performs over 1,100 kidney transplants in 30 years (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)
HCM City (VNA) – The Cho Ray Hospital in Ho ChiMinh City has performed 1,127 kidney transplants since 1992, heard an event heldby the medical establishment on March 16.
The event consisted of a ceremony to mark Cho Ray’s threedecades offering kidney transplants and a seminar on the surgery.
In his remarks, Nguyen Tri Thuc, director of the hospital,said Cho Ray is also a pioneer in implementing measures to expand the source ofdonor kidneys, including those from brain-dead donors (since 2008), cardiacarrest donors (since 2015), and ABO-incompatible living-donors (since 2021).
Individuals with outstanding contributions in Cho Ray Hospital's transplant activities were honoured at the event (Photo: VNA)
The hospital has also cooperated with transplant centers inthe Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), Australia, the US, and Spain,among others, to send doctors and nurses in study and experience exchangeprogrammes, he added.
Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan said up to 62,555people registered to donate organs in 2022, compared to just 265 in2014; and Cho Ray hospital posted about half of the total registrations.
The operation, which is becoming a routine technique at manyhospitals across the country, especially Cho Ray, has contributed to reviving many of those patients with organ failure, he affirmed./.
Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has won awards of the International Hospital Federation (IHF) for the two categories of “Excellence Award for Leadership and Management of American College of Healthcare Executives” and “Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety”.
Organs from a brain-dead donor have been successfully transplanted into six patients by the Cho Ray Hospital and the Children’s Hospital No 2 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Doctors from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi have worked together to conduct several organ transplants donated from a single donor.
Over the 30 years since performing its first kidney transplant from a living donor, Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has consistently developed expertise in organ transplantation, helping prolong and improve the lives of thousands of people.
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Cho Ray Hospital performs over 1,100 kidney transplants in 30 years (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn) 
Individuals with outstanding contributions in Cho Ray Hospital's transplant activities were honoured at the event (Photo: VNA) 
