These days, in the 5th floor corridor of the Cardiovascular Surgery Resuscitation Department (University Medical Center Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City), Mr. Pham Huu Tai (born in 1996) and Ms. Phan Thi Hieu Yen (born in 2000), living in Lang Bien 1 hamlet, My Quy commune (Dong Thap province), are always on duty with haggard, worried faces. Inside the isolation resuscitation room, their youngest daughter, baby Pham Ngoc Khanh Vy (not yet 4 months old), is struggling with illness after liver transplant surgery.
Ms. Yen said that during her pregnancy, the baby's ultrasound results were normal. In the last days of pregnancy, due to the discovery that the baby was at risk of weight loss, the doctor prescribed emergency surgery. When born, baby Khanh Vy was rosy, developed normally and healthy. However, tragedy struck just one day after being vaccinated against hepatitis B, the baby began to have a high fever, bruises on both shoulders and chest, and completely refused to breastfeed, leading to deep hypoglycemia.
The baby was immediately taken to the hospital by his family for emergency treatment and then urgently transferred to Children's Hospital 1 (Ho Chi Minh City)...
Through genetic testing and in-depth examination, doctors diagnosed baby Khanh Vy with end-stage chronic liver failure, kidney damage and severe blood infection. On June 10, 2026, baby Khanh Vy was transferred to Ho Chi Minh City University Medical Center Hospital to prepare for liver transplant surgery.
On the evening of the transfer, my child's heart suddenly stopped beating. At that moment, my limbs were numb, I thought I had permanently lost my child. Doctors gave all their strength to actively resuscitate and save my child's life from the hands of death. Until the next morning (June 11, 2026), when the indicators temporarily stabilized, liver transplant surgery was performed...", Ms. Yen recalled the terrifying moment with tears in her eyes.
Up to now, more than 1 month after baby Vy's liver transplant, due to strict infection control requirements, she still has to be placed in special isolation treatment. Every day, the young mother only knows how to press her face against a sterile glass, looking at her child from afar...
Ms. Yen and her husband left their hometown to go to the city to fight for their child's life, so far the total cost of treatment for baby Khanh Vy has been about 1.4 billion VND. Although fortunately receiving support from the Social Work Department of two hospitals, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Children's Hospital 1, the family is still burdened with hospital fees and incurred drug costs of nearly 400 million VND.
In his hometown, Mr. Tai used to be a freelancer, doing whatever anyone hired him to do, with unstable income. Ms. Yen stayed at home to take care of her child, so there was nothing to save. To have money to maintain baby Vy's life, the couple borrowed everywhere until they could no longer borrow. Up to now, the poor couple has had to sell all the rarest valuable assets in the house. Both paternal and maternal families are poor and powerless. Currently, their eldest daughter, Pham Ngoc Khanh Bang (5 years old), is sent to her grandparents to take care of.
The disease has taken away baby Khanh Vy's health, and also exhausted the last hope of the small family. Mr. and Mrs. Tai are in great need of the kind hands of philanthropists to help their daughter have more money to continue treatment...
All help for life situation LD26177 please send to Tam Long Vang Charity Social Fund - 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. Account number (STK) 113000000758 at VietinBank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi; Account number: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank Hanoi Branch; Account number: 12410001122556 - at BIDV Hoan Kiem Branch.
