Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in Philippines
Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have assisted their colleagues at Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) of the Philippines with using robots to perform Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer surgeries.
Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in the Philippines. (Photo: sggp.org.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - Doctorsfrom Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have assisted their colleagues at ChineseGeneral Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) of the Philippines with using robots to perform Gastrointestinal(GI) cancer surgeries.
Thanksto the technology transfer, doctors of the CGHMC have successfully performed such surgery to treat rectal cancer in a 50-year-old female patient who hadpreoperative chemotherapy and transverse colectomy for intestinal obstruction.
Philippine doctors were impressed with the single docking technique and theskillful dissection technique that is minimally invasive by doctors at Binh DanHospital.
According to Dr. Nguyen Phu Huu, deputy head of the GI ward at BinhDan Hospital, previously, a case of robotic surgery for colorectal cancer at the CGHMC could take up to 6 hours, but now it is only 2 hours and 30minutes with the guidance of doctors from BinhDan Hospital.
Huusaid he will support and guide doctors of the CGHMC to carry out more cases and make presentations to analyse important notes about robotic surgery in gastric andcolorectal cancer, making it easier for Philippine colleagues to master moreknowledge and skills of the technique.
According to Assoc. Prof. Tran Vinh Hung, Director of Binh Dan Hospital, inOctober 2019, the hospital’s doctors also transferred the robotic surgery techniqueto doctors of the Philippines General Hospital.
International cooperation in technology transfer is defined as one of thespearheads of Binh Dan Hospital in developing it into a centre for training roboticsurgery for hospitals nationwide and in the region, in line with the HCM City’sgoal of building a specialised medical centre in the ASEAN region./.
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Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in the Philippines. (Photo: sggp.org.vn) 
