On Tuesday, the Da Nang General Hospital officially announced the success of a kidney transplant which was performed on 18 September.  This was the 2^nd operation of its kind to have been conducted at the hospital since the start of this year.

The kidney recipient was 25-year-old Truong Thuy An from Quang Nam Province’s Dien Ban District, and the donor was her birth-mother, 48-year-old Tang Thi Thu.  

Previously, An had been diagnosed with end-stage renal failure and she had undergone periodic haemodialysis at the hospital over a 3–month period.

An (right) and her mother

It took 2 hours to take the left kidney out of Mrs Thu’s abdominal cavity, and one and a half hours to transplant the kidney into An’s body. 

Both An and her mother have now been discharged from the hospital after making a good recovery from their operations.

The Head of the Urologic Surgery Department of the hospital, Dr Bui Chin, remarked that kidney transplants involving blood relations have much higher success rates.