31 medical staff of Hai Duong Lung Hospital registered to donate tissues and organs

Associate Professor, Doctor Dong Van He, Deputy Director of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, Director of the National Coordination Center for Human Organ Transplantation, leaders of the Department of Health, along with 150 officials, civil servants, and employees of Hai Duong Lung Hospital, representatives of patients and patients' families attended.

Speaking at the launch, Associate Professor, Dr. Dong Van He emphasized that Hai Duong Lung Hospital is the first medical facility in Hai Duong province and one of the few medical facilities nationwide to organize a campaign to register for organ and tissue donation. This event will contribute significantly to raising awareness and spreading noble behaviors and gestures in the community.

Over the past 10 years, the number of people registering to donate tissues and organs in Vietnam has been increasing. Vietnamese medicine is now capable of transplanting all organs in the human body like other countries in the world. Vietnam is the first country in Southeast Asia to perform over 1,000 organ transplants per year...

However, the number of people registering to donate organs after death in Vietnam accounts for only 6% of the total number of registrations, while in developing countries it is from 40-90%. Over the past 10 years, each year the whole country has only had 10-12 cases of registering to donate organs after death. Thousands of patients are waiting for organ transplants but there are no donors. On average, every day the whole country has 36 people dying because they cannot get organ transplants. Vietnam has about 300,000 people waiting for corneal transplants...

Speaking at the ceremony, the leaders of the Department of Health and Hai Duong Lung Hospital called on cadres, civil servants and workers in the health sector to promote the spirit of mutual love, solidarity and enthusiastically participate in registering to donate human tissues and organs. Actively promote and mobilize relatives, friends and people around to respond and participate so that this noble gesture will spread more and more widely...

At the ceremony, 31 medical staff of Hai Duong Lung Hospital registered to donate human tissues and organs after death.

The organizing committee distributed leaflets to promote, mobilize, and guide medical staff, patients, and patients' relatives to register for organ and tissue donation online...