A donation from an organ donor helped two patients with severe corneal disease regain their sight, opening up a new chapter in their lives after years of impaired vision.
Ho Chi Minh City traffic police provided emergency escort for a vehicle transporting a donated heart from People's Hospital 115 to the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for a life-saving transplant, on the evening of June 3rd.
The Tuyen Quang Provincial Police have initiated legal proceedings against the driver involved in the accident on National Highway 4C that resulted in the death of a British female tourist, who subsequently donated her organs to save the lives of three Vietnamese patients.
In just four days, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital successfully performed 21 organ transplants from brain-dead donors and living donors, marking a rare large-scale transplant operation.
Associate Professor Dr. Duong Duc Hung, Director of Viet Duc Hospital, affirmed that Vietnamese medicine has mastered many advanced organ transplantation techniques, but still harbors a deep concern about the availability of organs to save lives.
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra registered to donate tissues and organs after death or brain death, and also called on the public to join hands in volunteering to help save the lives of many patients.
Many young people are getting tattoos of organ donation information on their bodies as a way to spread humanitarian spirit, but this trend raises concerns about the risk of being exploited by criminals.
Heartbroken at the thought of her 39-year-old husband's tragic death in an accident, the wife tearfully decided to donate his organs to give hope to four other lives.
Thanks to two acts of organ donation amidst grief, 12 critically ill patients were given a new lease on life through overnight transplant surgeries at Cho Ray Hospital.
A 38-year-old man in Quang Ninh province was declared brain dead after a traffic accident, and in their profound grief, his family decided to donate his organs to save many lives.
Twenty-seven days after receiving a kidney transplant from a brain-dead donor, the patient made a miraculous recovery, marking another step forward in the field of organ transplantation at Hospital E.
In a moment of renewed hope, three patients were given a second chance at life thanks to organ donations from a 19-year-old British girl, and they tearfully expressed their deep gratitude to the donor's family.
Thanks to the noble act of a British girl, three Vietnamese patients with organ failure were given a chance at life - a journey of recovery that began from loss.
In the operating room of Viet Duc Hospital, the farewell letter to the 19-year-old British girl who donated her organs to save lives brought tears to many eyes, moved by the gift of life she left behind in Vietnam.
The family of the 19-year-old British girl who donated her organs to save three Vietnamese people moved many to tears when they shared about their humane decision that helped give new lives a new lease on life.
Three critically ill patients in Vietnam have a new chance at life thanks to the organ donation decision of the family of a 19-year-old British tourist.
With his 29-year-old son brain dead and his wife battling terminal cancer, a father in Hanoi, suppressing his grief, donated his son's organs to save the lives of four patients.
Three ambulances left E Hospital (Hanoi) in quick succession, racing against time to deliver donated hearts, livers, and kidneys, activating an inter-hospital organ transplant system to save many lives.
Overwhelmed by grief at her husband's brain death, the wife choked back tears as she saw tears welling up in his eyes before he decided to donate multiple organs, miraculously giving new life to many others on the brink of death.
The Ministry of Health has requested hospitals to review all organ donation and transplantation procedures following the emergence of networks brokering the buying and selling of tissues and body parts via social media.
A 26-year-old woman with terminal cancer registered to donate her corneas while she was still alive, and after her death, her wish to "give away her sight" was fulfilled by her family.
Although she wasn't directly involved in treatment, Hong used her camera to capture the quiet moments of doctors and nurses in the brightly lit operating rooms, day and night.
An overnight organ donation operation on the 6th day of the Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse) at Bach Mai Hospital saved the lives of 8 patients from both the North and the South of Vietnam.
Thanks to the organ donation of a 21-year-old brain-dead man, four patients with end-stage heart failure, cirrhosis, and kidney failure were given a chance to live in the new year.
Many doctors and medical staff from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, who were on their way home for Tet (Lunar New Year), returned to perform four simultaneous organ transplants from a single donor, saving the lives of four critically ill patients.