Thanks to assistance from US experts, doctors of the Binh Dan Hospital, based in Ho Chi Minh City, have succeeded in mastering urethroplasty techniques and shared experience with their colleagues from other Southeast Asian countries, heard a seminar on August 23.
An operation at the HCM City-based Binh Dan Hospital (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Thanks toassistance from US experts, doctors of the Binh Dan Hospital, based in Ho ChiMinh City, have succeeded in mastering urethroplasty techniques and sharedexperience with their colleagues from other Southeast Asian countries, heard aseminar on August 23.
Assoc. Prof. and Dr. Tran Vinh Hung, Directorof the Binh Dan hospital, said his hospital has coordinated with professorsfrom the US University of California, Irvine, in this field since 2015.
It has sent experienced doctors tothe US to learn techniques from Prof. Joel Gelman, who has also visited theBinh Dan Hospital for two weeks each year to give guidance.
Since applying new techniques, the successrate of urethroplasty at the Binh Dan Hospital has reached 98%, beyond expectation as it is viewed as a type of complicatedsurgeries, Hung noted.
Prof. Joel Gelman from the Universityof California said the success rate is equivalent to the figure at big urethroplastycentres in the US.
This is a highly impressive resultthanks to the hospital’s implementation of many measures such as intensivepersonnel training, procurement of specialised equipment, and good diagnosisbefore and after operations, according to the expert.
In the past five years, the Binh Dan Hospitalhas given successful treatment to more than 1,000 patients of urethralstricture. It is planning to set up a urethroplasty department to furtherimprove treatment and a centre for urethroplasty training to transfertechniques to domestic and foreign doctors./.
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An operation at the HCM City-based Binh Dan Hospital (Photo: VNA) 
