The transplant, the first performed by the hospital, was conducted on September 18, with Dai’s twin brother, Tran Van Phong, donating the kidney. All the procedures for the kidney removal and transplant were directed and supervised by transplant experts from the Hanoi-based Military Hospital 103.
After four hours of surgery, all procedures were successful with the transplanted kidney showing stable urinary excretion. Both patients were treated and closely monitored following postoperative care procedures. The transplant patient has fully recovered from the surgery.
The success of the kidney transplant has affirmed the quality of the staff of doctors at Thai Nguyen Hospital, opening up opportunities for patients with kidney failure to receive advanced treatment locally instead of being taken to central-level hospitals.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Quy, head of the urinary surgical department under the Thai Nguyen General Hospital, expertise and legal sub-committees on kidney transplants had been established one year earlier in preparation for the first transplant. The hospital sent 61 doctors, nurses and technicians for training and received technology for human kidney transplants from the Military Medical Academy and the Military Hospital 103.
The Ministry of Health decided to establish an expert council to evaluate the conditions to perform kidney transplants at Thai Nguyen Hospital on September 9; the surgery took place nine days later.
