The President praised the National Children's Hospital for successfully transplanting a liver into a 9-month-old patient.
Upon hearing that a 9-month-old patient in Lam Dong province had just received a successful liver transplant from doctors at the National Children's Hospital and would be discharged on April 11, on the afternoon of April 10, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the staff, civil servants, and employees of the National Children's Hospital, especially the team that successfully performed the liver transplant on March 14.
The President emphasized that pediatric liver transplantation is one of the most difficult techniques in organ transplantation. Thanks to their continuous efforts to learn about professional and technical skills, the doctors of the National Children's Hospital have determined to completely master the pre-transplant examination process, transplant techniques, anesthesia, and resuscitation, contributing to opening up new hopes for families with children suffering from end-stage liver failure.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hopes that doctors and medical staff at the National Children's Hospital will continue to work in the spirit of "Dedication and quality for the health of Vietnamese children" to bring life to more children with serious illnesses.
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| President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised and commended the staff, civil servants, and employees of the National Children's Hospital, especially the team that performed the liver transplant for the child patient. |
Previously, on March 14, a liver transplant from a part of the father's liver to a 9-month-old boy, weighing 8.2 kg, with end-stage liver disease due to progressive biliary cirrhosis of congenital biliary atresia - a rare disease of the liver and biliary tract - was successful after 9 hours of major surgery by the liver transplant team of the National Children's Hospital, despite the complicated COVID-19 pandemic with many difficulties.
The National Children's Hospital is currently the unit with the largest number of pediatric liver transplants in Vietnam, including liver transplants requiring difficult techniques and complex pathologies such as blood group incompatibility, liver transplants for children with liver cancer, genetic diseases, especially liver transplants for children with low weight. This 25th successful liver transplant at the National Children's Hospital was performed entirely by the hospital's doctors, without support from foreign experts.
