Two babies who underwent surgery for serious liver diseases have recovered, said the National Paediatrics Hospital on Wednesday.

Vietnam has successfully conducted the world's first limb transplant from a live donor, Central Military Hospital 108 announced on Monday.

Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi has successfully conducted 15 organ transplants this month to save people on the verge of death. This was a record for Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has 19 organ transplant centres, and the biggest problem they face was a shortage of organs to conduct transplants, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 200 Vietnamese and foreign doctors compared notes on many areas of medicine at the Cho Ray Science Congress held in HCM City on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s organ transplantation technique is now on equal footing with developed countries, experts say.

VietNamNet Bridge - Pegfilgrastim, a chemotherapy drug made in Vietnam, is expected to hit the market in 2018.

VietNamNet Bridge - After 25 years of development, Vietnam’s organ transplant techniques are believed to be of a high international standard. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is preparing for lung transplant operations for adults as well as transplantation of limbs, intestines and face with organs from brain-dead donors.

VietNamNet Bridge - The success of the first cross kidney transplant case has brought more hope to patients as the sources of organs for transplant will be expanded.

VietNamNet Bridge - While Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergio Canavero says a human head transplant surgery may be carried out next year in Vietnam, Vietnamese agencies say they have not been informed about this.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government has allowed the Ministry of Health to grant licenses to tissue banks, including privately run banks. However, it is still unclear who would invest in the field. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese scientists believe that Vietnam has sufficient conditions to carry out human head transplant operations through technology transfer. 

In Dong Thap Province, 60 children were mistakenly injected with distilled water instead of rubella vaccine.

Formosa IP to recruit nearly 3,000 foreign workers; HCMC establishes paediatric organ transplant centre; Whirlwind destroys houses in Dong Thap; Mother's liver saves 1-year old daughter;

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese hospitals have performed 900 kidney transplants, 23 liver and 9 heart transplants so far, while the number of patients who are in need of organ transplant is tens of thousands.