HanoiNurse Lo Thi Thuy Linh, working at Hospital E, suffered from a serious illness that led to brain death. Her family agreed to donate her organs for transplant to four people.
Thuy Linh, 40 years old, working at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital E, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in early March. After being treated for emergency treatment, her heart beat again, but she fell into brain death. After 3 assessments by the Brain Death Diagnosis Council, the family agreed to donate all organs to save the lives of 4 seriously ill people. During her lifetime, she registered to donate organ tissue.
“To perform this organ removal and transplantation, the operating rooms of Hospital E, Viet Duc and 108 are all lit up with dozens of doctors, doctors, and experts from participating hospitals,” said Dr. Nguyen Cong Huu. , Director of Hospital E said, on the afternoon of April 4.
From the female nurse’s donated organs, 4 people were revived. Among them, one patient received a heart transplant and two people received a kidney transplant at Viet Duc Hospital, and one patient received a liver transplant at Hospital 108. All transplants were successful, and the patient who received the organ has recovered his health.
Mr. Lo Manh Hoi, father of nurse Thuy Linh, said his child’s misfortune has brought luck to many other lives. “My daughter will smile everywhere. When I see her heart still beating, my pain eases a lot,” he said.
Posthumously awarding the Medal “For People’s Health” to nurse Linh, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan evaluated the organ donation of a medical worker as a typical example of spreading positive things to society. Ms. Lan called on all people to respond and participate in registering to donate tissues and organs after death or brain death to save other lives.
Over the past 10 years, only 5 hospitals have performed organ transplant techniques, at the same time diagnosed brain death and resuscitated brain death for human tissue and body donation. This is one of the reasons why the brain death rate for human tissue and organ donation is still very low in Vietnam. After Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Hospital E is the second unit that has never had an organ transplant but has successfully implemented a model for diagnosing brain death and successfully resuscitating brain death for organ donation with the help of the Center for Brain Death Treatment. national organ transplant coordination.
“Therefore, developing a network of hospitals that perform brain death diagnosis and brain death resuscitation for organ donation nationwide has now become the direction of the Ministry of Health,” Minister Lan said, adding that this will help provide more sources of donor organs.
Tissue and organ transplantation is the final method of treatment for patients with chronic and dangerous diseases due to irreversible and irreversible tissue and organ dysfunction such as chronic kidney, liver, heart, and bone marrow failure. cornea… As of early this year, after 32 years of organ transplantation and 14 years of taking organs from brain-dead donors, the whole country has performed more than 8,000 transplants. Currently, nearly 4,000 people are on the transplant waiting list, mainly patients waiting for kidney and liver transplants.