Additionally, hepatitis, cirrhosis, disorders of the pancreas are challenges of the country’s health sector.
Chairman of the Vietnam Society of Hepato Biliary Pancreatic Surgery Professor Le Trung Hai said the Southeast Asian country has around 40,000 hepatitis B and C-related deaths.
So far, surgeons have performed over 180 liver, kidney transplants and more than 1,000 capsule endoscopy procedures have been carried out.
Simultaneously, hospitals have conducted hundreds of robot-assisted surgeries and thousands of other minimally invasive surgeries on patients with liver, disorders of the pancreas.
