Vietnam has the first tissue bank

Tissue bank preserved nearly 1,000 pieces of skull bones with more than 300 pieces assembled for patients, hundreds of sperm and testicular tissue samples.

On the afternoon of October 16, Professor Tran Binh Giang, Director of Viet Duc Hospital, said that the Ministry of Health has just signed a decision to grant a license to operate a tissue bank of Viet Duc Hospital . This is the first tissue bank in Vietnam licensed and operated.

Tissue bank is responsible for receiving, preserving, storing and transporting tissue. On the other hand, banks provide tissue for health facilities, research and training institutions. The bank also provides and exchanges tissue with other tissue banks and cooperates with foreign organizations and individuals for medical examination and treatment, medical training and research.

Professor Giang said that Viet Duc Hospital is the first special surgical hospital in the country. The hospital carries out tens of thousands of surgeries every year, including organ transplants, heart valves, blood vessels, bone and tendon grafting in orthopedic trauma . These are the leading techniques of the hospital.

The heart donated by a brain-dead person in Hanoi in a special box transferred to Hue transplant for patients.(Photos provided by the hospital).

Viet Duc Hospital and Vietnamese hospitals have a great need for bone, blood vessel, heart valve, tendon graft . for patients. The Institute of Injury and Orthopedics from 2011 until now has had bone grafting for 120 patients, laparoscopic surgery to regenerate knee ligament with manicures and tendons for 263 people. The Neurosurgery Center carries out thousands of skull bone grafts every year.

Meanwhile, Vietnam so far has only two laboratories for tissue preservation research at Hanoi Medical University and Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University. While there are more than 300,000 tissue banks in 46 countries, Vietnam does not have a real tissue bank established to carry out professional activities to treat patients.

Mr. Giang said that the tissues, organs from people for brain death, the body parts of the donor, if collected and through the process and preservation of international standards will bring a lot of benefits. for patients wishing to transplant. Therefore, tissue bank is an urgent need and really necessary.

Previously, Superior General To Lam, Minister of Public Security visited two successful organ transplant cadres at Viet Duc Hospital. After that, the Love Fund of the police team donated VND 5 billion to help the hospital equip organ boxes and specialized equipment for tissue banks. Thanks to these organ containers, Viet Duc Hospital transferred donated hearts from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City and Hue so that doctors of Cho Ray Hospital and Hue Central Hospital could successfully transplant patients.