Number of organ donors highest in Cho Ray Hospital
Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has the highest number of registered organ donors in the country, according to the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.
A kidney transplant conducted by doctors of Cho Ray Hospital in February 2023. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)
Ho Chi Minh City (VNS/VNA)ꦅ — Cho Ray Hospital in Ho ChiMinh City has the highest number of registered organ donors in the country,according to the Vietnam National Coordinating Centre for Human OrganTransplantation.
As many as 62,555 people registered to donate organs in Vietnamlast year, compared to just 265 in 2014. Cho Ray Hospital posted about half ofthe total registrations. Since the first kidney transplant on February 28, 1992, thehospital has conducted 1,127 kidney transplants. Among those, a total of 70 organs were transplanted from braindead patients or those who had dysfunctional hearts. The hospital has cooperated with transplant centres in theRepublic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), Australia, the US, and Spain, amongothers, to send doctors and nurses on study and experience exchange programmes. Tran Van Thuan, deputy health minister, said the operation, whichis becoming a routine technique at many hospitals across the country,especially Cho Ray, has contributed to reviving many of those patients withorgan failure. Nguyen Tri Thuc, the hospital’s director, said the hospital hasmaintained good cooperation with airlines, police and health authorities todeliver the donor organ across the country. Cho Ray Hospital has pioneered in innovating solutions to utilisethe sources of organs donated. In 2008, the hospital succeeded in transplantingorgans from brain dead patients. They also successfully performed transplantation from a donor withcardiac arrest on June 18, 2015, a cross-donor transplant on January 11, 2017and ABO blood type incompatibility on December 29, 2021. In Vietnam, anyone over 18 years old can register to donate theirorgans after death or brain death. Two centres offering registration for organ donors are the Vietnam-GermanyHospital in Hanoi and Cho Ray Hospital./.
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.
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.
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A kidney transplant conducted by doctors of Cho Ray Hospital in February 2023. (Photo courtesy of the hospital) 
