The trip took place at the invitation of the Manila-based Philippine General Hospital, one of the biggest of its kind in the country with 1,500 beds. The robotic surgeries were conducted on October 24 for two obese patients weighing over 130 kg each.

Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City conduct a robot-assisted operation at the Manila-based Philippine General Hospital.

Surgery that uses robots is less invasive and uses smaller incisions than normal surgical methods. It reduces pain, bleeding, infections and the length of hospital stay.

The next day, the visiting Vietnamese doctors also introduced advanced robotic operating skills targeting the digestive system.

Binh Dan Hospital is a pioneer for robotic operations for adults in Vietnam. Carrying out more than 800 robot-assisted surgeries over the past three years, it is gradually turning itself into a training centre for the technology in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

PM lauds silent contributions of doctors to public health care

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 26 applauded silent contributions of doctors and health workers from central to grassroots levels to public health care on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27). 

Activities mark Vietnamese Doctors’ Day

A ceremony was held in Phnom Penh on February 24 by the Khmer – Vietnamese Doctors’ Association to celebrate the 64th anniversary of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (1955-2019).

Korean doctor pursues special education in Vietnam after retirement

Choi Young-sook, a Korean woman in her 60s with a doctorate degree in audiology, has been dedicating her time to students with disabilities in Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong over the past eight years.

More young doctors volunteer to work in disadvantaged areas

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on December 18 to see off 14 freshly-graduated doctors of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to work in Vietnam’s mountainous and remote areas.

Vietnamese doctors provide free eye treatment for Cambodians

Doctors from Vietnam’s military hospital 175 and Ho Chi Minh City eye hospital, on November 14 and 15, offer free eye checkups and surgeries and medicines to hundreds of poor Cambodian patients.

Source: VNA