On July 23, Kon Tum Provincial General Hospital said that the unit had just coordinated with Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital to perform surgery on 13 cases of congenital thoracic deformities.
This is an activity within the program of cooperation, support, and technical transfer between the two hospitals. After performing screening examinations for 23 patients, doctors from the Department of Trauma Surgery (Kon Tum Provincial General Hospital) prescribed surgery for 13 cases.
Of these, there were 5 surgeries to place breast augmentation bars and 8 surgeries to remove breast augmentation bars. All of the above cases were operated on using the Nuss method.
According to Dr. Tran Thanh Vy - Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital - shared, Nuss is a method of treating chest depression with positive results, minimal invasiveness, and loss of Very little health and short recovery time.
In this program, doctors from Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital provided professional advice to doctors at Kon Tum Provincial General Hospital to perform a lobectomy.
This is considered an in-depth and complex technique often applied at central hospitals. The technical transfer not only contributes to improving the professional capacity of doctors at Kon Tum Provincial General Hospital, but also improves the quality of medical services locally.
This allows patients to save time and costs of travel, accommodation, and treatment, contributing to reducing the load on Central Hospitals.
