Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 19 called on all Vietnamese adults, regardless of gender, ethnic groups, religion, or region, to register as an organ donor.

In recent years, the Vietnamese health sector has continued to make its mark on the world medical map with meaningful works that catch up with the advances of developed countries.

Doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi have successfully performed multi-organ transplant from two brain-dead donors to eight patients, according to hospital director Duong Duc Hung.

The Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital has performed a multiple organ transplantation with organs taken from a brain dead donor, saving the lives of six different patients.

Doctors from the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi have successfully completed 23 organ transplants over the past 13 days, marking a significant step forward for multi-organ procedures conducted in the country.

Pham Van Vuong, 31, woke up at 9 am in the hospital’s quiet recovery room which was carefully quarantined on January 22 (the 28th day of the last lunar month). He had slept for nine hours after his surgical operation.

During 2018, three furious races like that were conducted at Hue Central Hospital in Thua Thien-Hue province. In all the races, doctors won.

Organ transplantation in Vietnam, despite difficulties, has recorded numerous achievements this year, giving hope to thousands of patients nationwide.

The Nhi Dong 2 Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has successfully transplanted a kidney from a brain dead donor in Hanoi into a 15-year-old patient.

Thailand’s Siriraj Hospital has successfully transplanted three organs into a single patient - the first medical achievement of its kind in Asia.

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital successfully performed organ transplants for five persons using organs from a brain-dead donor on April 20.

The two patients transplanted with a heart and a kidney donated by a brain dead person in Hanoi are in sound condition and ready to be discharged from the hospital, Dr. Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Deputy Director of the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital said on March 19.

There are 18 hospitals qualified for organ transplantation in Vietnam at present, 25 years since the first successful kidney transplant in the country.

Doctors at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City successfully carried out a heart transplant for the first time, with support from doctors of Hanoi’s Vietnam – Germany Hospital.

Vietnam has successfully performed nearly 1,400 organ transplant surgeries over the past 20 years, said Le Quang Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health.

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.

The health of two patients in Viet Duc Hospital, who received liver and heart transplants from a brain-dead patient in HCM City's Cho Ray Hospital on September 4, is improving.