Children's Hospital 2 (HCMC) performs liver transplants again

SGGP 06/27/2023 06:15

On June 26, Children's Hospital 2 (HCMC) resumed liver transplants after a temporary suspension.

The patient who received the liver transplant was an 11-year-old boy (living in Binh Dinh province) with biliary atresia, who had Kassai surgery when he was 1 month old. The liver donor was the patient's mother. The liver transplant team for this patient were doctors from Children's Hospital 2, with the support of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in the process of removing the liver from the donor.

Previously, on May 23, SGGP Newspaper published an article: "Hospital temporarily postpones liver transplants due to old operating room", reflecting the reality that many parents whose children were assigned to have liver transplants but were not able to receive them, were forced to go to Hanoi to have them done.

The reason is that Children's Hospital 2 is waiting for the organ transplant appraisal project, there is a lack of organs for transplant; the number of operating rooms is small, and there is a lack of human resources...