Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital transplant a kidney and liver for one patient at the same time in a 12-hour surgery. (Photo: Vietnam-Germany Hospital)

Also for the first time, the Hospital has transplanted a lung for a patient with heart failure. The two complicated transplant surgeries involved hundreds of doctors.

The kidney and liver were donated by a 19-year-old in Bac Giang province who was pronounced brain-dead after a traffic accident. The Vietnam-Germany Hospital also transplanted a lung, heart, and second kidney from this donor.