First all-Vietnamese heart transplant successful
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Wednesday afternoon, doctor Bui Duc Phu, director of the Hue Central Hospital announced that his hospital has successfully carried out a heart transplant surgery for a 26-year-old male.
This is the first heart transplant operation done 100% by Vietnamese doctors in Vietnam.
It is also the second successful heart transplant case in general in the country after the first one at the Military Hospital 103 – which was helped by foreign experts.
The 5-hour-long surgery on Tran Mau Duc of Hue city ended at 3am Wednesday.
By 10am Wednesday, Duc has regained consciousness and can talk.
President Nguyen Minh Triet personally congratulated the doctors.
According to Doctor Phu, this surgery was done with the participation of over 100 doctors and medical employees.
15 doctors were directly involved in the operation.
