Posts Tagged ‘ Cho Ray ’

US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]

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Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday. According to the [...]

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Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

January 14, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had their massive tumors removed in high-profile surgeries last week are doing well, the news website of Vietnam Media Corp. quoted local doctors as saying Monday. Dr. Tran Quyet Tien, vice [...]

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Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

January 6, 2012
Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

Kieu Thi My Dung (L) had facial tumors removed on Friday. An American surgeon and Vietnamese doctors performed surgery to remove abnormal facial tumors from a 22-year-old girl at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital on Friday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. The operation on Kieu Thi My Dung started at 10 a.m. and ended [...]

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Woman with abnormal facial tumors to be treated 

January 2, 2012
Woman with abnormal facial tumors to be treated 

Kieu Thi My Dung with tumors on her face. (Photo: VnExpress) A 22-year-old woman who recently grabbed headlines for her facial tumors has been admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital for treatment, Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper reported. Kieu Thi My Dung of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is at the Cho [...]

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Violence prone 

November 21, 2011
Violence prone 

  Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]

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Unhealthy relationship 

August 28, 2011
Unhealthy relationship 

An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]

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HCMC hospital to conduct first liver transplant on adults 

June 13, 2011
HCMC hospital to conduct first liver transplant on adults 

  Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital will be the first one in southern Vietnam to conduct liver transplants on adult patients this July, it announced Friday. Two patients, who have cirrhosis and liver cancer respectively, have been selected for the first surgeries this year. They are aged 32 and 57. Funding for the [...]

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Road accidents increase on Vietnam holidays 

May 4, 2011
Road accidents increase on Vietnam holidays 

  The number of trauma cases caused by road accidents admitted to a major hospital in Hanoi in the last three days saw an increase of 50-60 percent compared to previous days. The Viet Duc Hospital received an average 135 cases a day in three days between April 29 and May 1.   Hospital officals said [...]

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Journalist set on fire while asleep at home 

January 22, 2011
Journalist set on fire while asleep at home 

The bed of reporter Hoang Hung of "Nguoi Lao Dong" newspaper which was burnt in a suspected arson attack on Wednesday. A reporter from Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper remains in critical condition after an unidentified suspect set him on fire while he was asleep in his bed early Wednesday. Family members rushed Le Hoang Hung [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...