First Vietnamese private hospital launches tissue bank
Associate Professor, Dr. Hoàng Thị Minh Châu, Director of the hospital, said that according to incomplete statistics, since 2017, the country has had more than 300,000 people blind due to corneal diseases, of whom half are blind in both eyes. In Việt Nam, corneal transplant surgery was performed for the first time in 1950, but the number remains modest due to the resources.