On January 16, the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi (Quang Binh) announced that it had successfully reattached a nearly severed finger for male patient T.X.K (56 years old, in Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh).
On January 15, the patient was taken to the emergency room after being cut on his right hand with a hand saw, nearly severing his thumb.
Doctor Nguyen Duc Cuong - Hospital Director - directed the doctors to urgently consult and decided to reattach the finger using microsurgery techniques.
After 4 hours of surgery, doctors successfully reattached the patient's finger.
Doctor Nguyen Duy Tung - Head of the microsurgery team, Department of Orthopedic Trauma Surgery, Vietnam - Cuba Dong Hoi Friendship Hospital - said that finger reattachment surgery is a difficult technique, requiring modern equipment and experienced, well-trained surgeons.
Doctor Tung informed that the difficulty and complexity of this case is that the blood vessels and nerves in the finger are very small, so it requires high dexterity and meticulousness in every operation. The medical team must use a microscope to magnify the surgical field and a specialized microsurgical instrument set to perform the nerve and blood vessel suturing operations.
It is known that in Quang Binh province, Vietnam - Cuba Dong Hoi Friendship Hospital is the only unit that can reattach a severed finger for a patient using microsurgery techniques.
