Health experts reviewed the results of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital’s organ and tissue transplantation activities at a workshop on Friday in Hanoi.

Doctors from the National Children's Hospital and the 108 Central Military Hospital have successfully performed life-saving liver transplants on an 18-month-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, both suffering from complex, life-threatening illness.

Sixty six liver transplants have so far been performed across the country, with 34 donors being alive and 32 brain dead, according to the Vietnam Society of Organ Transplantation.

Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed 1,500 kidney transplants, 50 liver transplants and 13 heart cases to date.