Within 24 hours, the process of receiving the donated liver, two kidneys, two corneas, and skin to conducte transplantation for six patients was completed. The last surgery ended at 8:00 pm on May 3.

In the past three years, Vietnam has consistently recorded over 1,000 successful transplants annually – the highest in the region.

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam has emerged as Southeast Asia's leader in organ transplantation, performing over 1,000 procedures annually, but it faces significant challenges in brain-dead donor donations, according to a health official.

After more than three decades of relentless dedication, Vietnam's medical sector has achieved remarkable milestones in organ transplantation, becoming the leader in Southeast Asia in terms of the number of transplants performed annually.

Doctors in Vietnam have performed over 1,000 organ transplants per year over the past two years, making the country the leader in Southeast Asia in the number of organ transplants annually. This achievement reflects significant advancements in the expertise, technical skills, and experience of Vietnam's healthcare sector in the sector.

The number of people registering for organ donation is still very low, so it is necessary to step up the building of the legal corridor on this sensitive issue.

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 number of human organ trafficking crimes has risen with increasingly sophisticated tricks and techniques, triggered by high demand and low rate of donation from dead brain donors, according to local authorities.

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.

There are 23 hospitals qualified for organ transplantation in Vietnam, according to Associate Professor, Doctor Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Health Ministry’s Department for Medical Examination and Treatment.

Vietnam has marked a new imprint in the world medical map with the successful performance of the world’s first limb transplant from a live donor by doctors of the Central Military Hospital 108.

More than 150 doctors at the Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108 performed transplant for six patients with organs from a brain-dead donor.

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.

The Hue Central Hospital and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s ASAN Medical Centre signed a cooperation agreement on regional- and international-level liver transplant programme in Hue city on October 16.

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

As many as 449 people attending a ceremony on November 28 signed a pledge to donate their organs after death to the National Coordination Centre for Organ Transplantation.