Associate Professor Dr. Nguyễn Thanh Liêm, Director of the Central Pediatrics Hospital, announced that in August, the hospital will perform a bone marrow transplant for a 7-year-old patient suffering from severe bone marrow failure. The patient will receive bone marrow from her 13-year-old sister.
It is expected that a few weeks after the transplant, the patient’s body will begin to produce its own bone marrow. This will be the first bone marrow transplant in Northern Vietnam, supported by technical expertise from Australian specialists.
The hospital has completed the necessary infrastructure to carry out the transplant (previously, two teams of doctors and technicians from the hospital were sent to Australia and South Korea to learn about bone marrow transplantation).
According to Mr. Liêm, bone marrow transplantation is more convenient than liver transplantation. The greatest advantage of a bone marrow transplant is that it poses no life-threatening risk to either the donor or the recipient. It is reported that the Central Pediatrics Hospital will waive the transplant costs for the aforementioned patient.
