After receiving notice on February 22 from the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center about a suitable donor heart at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, the hospital immediately activated its emergency transplant protocol. Within an hour, the surgical team assembled and flew to Hanoi on the earliest flight.
The donated heart arrived in Ho Chi Minh City at 3:45 a.m., and the transplant surgery began right away. At 4:45 a.m., the first heartbeat resumed in the child’s chest. The patient is currently stable with a favorable initial recovery.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh, Deputy Director of the hospital and head of the transplant team, said that this was the hospital’s ninth heart transplant from a brain-dead donor. In the past week alone, two heart transplants were performed.
The hospital has completed 214 organ transplants, including 97 kidney, 108 liver and nine heart transplants so far.
