A 43 year-old man who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and suffered lung complications, recovered after being on prolonged ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) support, the Da Nang Lung Hospital has announced.

He was under treatment for COVID-19 for 80 days at the Da Nang Lung hospital.

He was discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital at the midday on Monday, October 18 after making a full recovery from COVID-19.

That began a fight for his life that consists of 47 days on a ventilator, 33 days on an ECMO machine and a total of over 80 days in the hospital. The disease caused a life-threatening pneumonia.

The man who is residing in Hoa Xuan Ward, Cam Le District, was rushed to the Hoan My Hospital’s emergency room on August 27 after developing severe symptoms, and he tested positive for COVID-19 subsequently. He was unconscious and clinging to life. He required critical care in a hospital for COVID-19 patients and a ventilator to breathe due to acute respiratory distress syndrome. He therefore was transferred to intensive care unit at the Da Nang Lung Hospital as he was in a life threatening clinical condition with  septic shock and multiorgan failure.

He has been put on a ventilator for 47 days and on an ECMO machine for 33 days at the Da Nang Lung Hospital in addition to undergoing long-term dialysis treatments to keep he alive.

After battling COVID-19 in the hospital for 80 days, he was discharged to home on Monday after making a miraculous recovery from the illness.

Doctors and nurses of the hospital have given their best in the successful treatment of the critically-ill patient.

There are just 13 remaining active cases of COVID-19, including one 84-year-old patient requiring critical care, that are being treated in Da Nang Lung Hospital.

Reporting by LE HUNG – translating by H.L