The medical team from Tu Du Hospital and Children's Hospital 1 focused on performing fetal catheterization on a Singaporean pregnant woman - Photo: Provided by Tu Du Hospital
At the beginning of the letter of commendation, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said she was very happy and proud to learn that on May 28, a team of highly qualified and experienced doctors, nurses, and technicians from Children's Hospital 1 and Tu Du Hospital (HCMC) had closely coordinated and successfully performed the 9th fetal heart catheterization.
Notably, this time the pregnant woman is a Singaporean carrying a 25-week-old fetus weighing less than 600g but suffering from a rare congenital defect. Singaporean medical experts referred her to Vietnam for intervention.
According to the Minister of Health, fetal cardiac intervention is a new and complex technique that not only requires extensive professional knowledge and sophisticated techniques, but also places strict requirements on inter-professional coordination, professional ethics and courage in making life-or-death decisions for two lives: mother and child.
Currently, this technique has only been successfully performed in a few countries in the world with specialized and developed healthcare systems.
The fact that Vietnamese doctors have approached, mastered and successfully applied this technique is clear evidence of the increasingly strong endogenous capacity of the country's medicine.
This is not only a technical achievement in medical expertise but also a success that touches profound human values, when the fragile seeds of life on the border of survival have been held by the hands, minds, passion and intelligence of doctors like gentle mothers.
This achievement not only brings hope to thousands of pregnant women and their families, but also opens up a new direction in diagnosing and treating complex diseases right from the fetal period - an important step forward for the Vietnamese medical industry to deeply integrate with world medicine.
On behalf of the leaders of the Ministry of Health, Minister Dao Hong Lan commended and appreciated the efforts, breakthroughs, and technical expertise development of the leaders, doctors, technicians, nurses, and staff of Children's Hospital 1, Tu Du Hospital, and the direction of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.
The successful implementation of fetal intervention techniques opens up many prospects for the development of high technology and specialized techniques in medical examination and treatment, creating trust, image and international prestige for the country's healthcare sector.
"I believe that you will continue to promote the successful steps you have achieved, constantly study and research, improve your professional qualifications, promote medical ethics and the good qualities of Vietnamese physicians; continue the aspiration to contribute and the strength of Vietnamese knowledge in the new era, the era of the country's rise," the Minister of Health concluded the letter.
The Vietnamese medical sector has made its mark with 8 successful fetal heart catheterizations performed by medical teams from Tu Du Hospital and Children's Hospital 1. And the 9th case was more special recently as the mother came from Singapore and had to undergo two heart catheterizations.
Deciding to perform a second fetal catheterization after the first failed attempt was a difficult and stressful decision, requiring careful preparation and planning. The success of the surgery brought strong emotions to the entire team of about 20 people, the pregnant woman and the patient's family as they all burst into tears.
Proud, moved, unable to hold back tears... are the feelings of many readers when hearing the news that doctors successfully performed a fetal catheterization on a Singaporean pregnant woman.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bo-truong-bo-y-te-gui-thu-khen-e-kip-thong-tim-bao-thai-cho-san-phu-singapore-20250530215108111.htm
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