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Vietnam to co-operate with Singapore in making
artificial skin
The medical sector has planned to co-operate with Singapore in making artificial skin, according to President Le The Trung of the National Organ Transplant Council.
Vietnam has gained many achievements in organ and tissue transplantation despite poor conditions, Trung said.
The first bone marrow transplant was successfully conducted on a leukaemia patient in July 1995. In the near future, lymphoma (cancer) patients will be treated with stem cell transplants in which doctors will separate a stem cell from a donor's bone marrow and transplant it to a patient.
Besides successes in stem cell transplants, the first successful kidney transplant was conducted by Army Hospital surgeons in 1992. Eight hospitals, including two paediatrics hospitals, have so far conducted such operations on 151 patients.
Another success of the health sector was the recent liver transplant performed at the Military Medicine Institute with the assistance of Japanese doctors.
artificial skin
The medical sector has planned to co-operate with Singapore in making artificial skin, according to President Le The Trung of the National Organ Transplant Council.
Vietnam has gained many achievements in organ and tissue transplantation despite poor conditions, Trung said.
The first bone marrow transplant was successfully conducted on a leukaemia patient in July 1995. In the near future, lymphoma (cancer) patients will be treated with stem cell transplants in which doctors will separate a stem cell from a donor's bone marrow and transplant it to a patient.
Besides successes in stem cell transplants, the first successful kidney transplant was conducted by Army Hospital surgeons in 1992. Eight hospitals, including two paediatrics hospitals, have so far conducted such operations on 151 patients.
Another success of the health sector was the recent liver transplant performed at the Military Medicine Institute with the assistance of Japanese doctors.
