Youngsters’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. (Photograph courtesy of the hospital)

HCM Metropolis (VNA) – The primary pediatric organ
transplant centre in Vietnam’s southern area is scheduled to be accomplished and
put into operation on the event of the fiftieth anniversary of the Liberation of the South and Nationwide Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 – 2025).

It will likely be situated at Youngsters’s Hospital 2 in Ho
Chi Minh Metropolis, one of many first youngsters’s hospitals in Vietnam to have
performed kidney and liver transplants for pediatric sufferers, Affiliate
Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the municipal Division of Well being,
stated on April 9.

In line with the official, the medical institution has efficiently
carried out 33 liver, 30 kidney and 10 autologous stem cell transplants to date,
with the primary case of kidney in 2004 and liver, one yr later.

 

The Ministry of Well being has lately issued a
determination recognising the hospital as certified to take away and transplant kidneys
and livers from residing and from brain-dead donors, he famous.

Along with the centre, HCM Metropolis may have thee
specialised healthcare amenities for youngsters, together with the cardiovascular centre on the Youngsters’s Hospital 1 and the most cancers centre on the Metropolis Youngsters’s Hospital./.