Patients get on well with organs from brain dead donorThe two patients transplanted with a heart and a kidney donated by a brain dead person in Hanoi are in sound condition and ready to be discharged from the hospital, Dr. Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Deputy Director of the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital said on March 19. On February 26, Cho Ray Hospital doctors received the heart and the kidney sent by the Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital. The donor is brain dead 45-year-old soldier, who had an accident on duty. The heart was taken from the brain dead donor in Hanoi at 13:00 on Feb. 26 and reached Cho Ray hospital in HCM City at about 16:15. The hospital has performed transplants in over 30 patients, using organs from brain dead donors over the past 10 years.

Source: VietNamNet News March 19, 2018 17:15 UTC