HCMC uses more modern treatments

 17-May-16, Vietnam+

District-level hospitals in HCM City are now using more advanced techniques and treatment, often performing at a level that matches city-level hospitals.

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The Thu Duc District Hospital, which is considered only the district-level hospital in HCM City with the same quality as city-level hospitals, has successfully performed for the first time the non-surgical treatment, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), on a patient with a malignant liver tumour.

The 58-year-old patient was hospitalised and diagnosed on May 12. During TACE, the doctors injected a chemotherapy medication into the patient’s liver through a catheter inserted into a femoral artery to prevent the development of the cancerous tumour.

The procedure was carried out with a digital subtraction angiography machine worth more than 26 billion VND (USD1.2 million), which the hospital bought in early May.

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 Elsevier APAC Healthcare Update