Over 1,300 lives saved through tissue and organ transplants at Military Central Hospital 108
VOV.VN - Since performing its first kidney transplant in December 2016, Military Central Hospital 108 has carried out more than 1,300 successful tissue and organ transplants, building a comprehensive transplant ecosystem.
Lieut. Gen., Prof., Dr. Le Huu Song, Director of the hospital, said that over its 71 years of development, the teaching of President Ho Chi Minh - “A good physician is like a caring mother” has remained the guiding principle for its medical staff. The decade-long transplant journey reflects professional competence and medical ethics in practice.
The hospital has become one of Southeast Asia’s leading liver transplant centers, ranking first nationwide in transplant volume and mastering complex techniques, notably routine living-donor liver transplantation.
It has achieved several national firsts, including laparoscopic-assisted surgery in liver transplant recipients; laparoscopic liver graft retrieval from living donors; procurement of a liver from a brain-dead donor for simultaneous transplantation into two recipients; and ABO-incompatible liver transplantation for both adults and children, first performed in 2021.
In 2024, the hospital set a record by conducting multi-organ procurement and transplantation from a brain-dead donor on Lunar New Year’s Eve, saving eight patients. In 2025, it successfully implanted a third-generation left ventricular assist device (LVAD – HeartMate3) and performed 19 tissue and organ transplants within a single week.
The hospital marked the 10th anniversary of its transplant program on February 25.
Alongside technical advances, the hospital has expanded training and technology transfer. To date, it has supported 10 central and provincial hospitals, across both military and civilian systems, in kidney, liver and lung transplantation.
Many of these institutions now perform routine transplants independently, helping reduce pressure on tertiary hospitals and expanding access to advanced treatment for patients in the provinces.
In the coming period, the hospital will continue to identify transplantation as a strategic focus, expanding brain-dead donor transplantation, multi-organ procedures and other complex techniques to optimize donor resources.
It is preparing to implement donation after circulatory death and apply robotic surgery in organ procurement and transplantation, while further standardizing procedures, strengthening training and technology transfer, and expanding international cooperation and scientific research to approach leading transplant centers in the region and worldwide.
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