Long Khanh hospital commended for saving man from cardiac stab wound

10:11, 06/11/2014

(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Health Department on November 5 held a ceremony to award certificates of merit to doctors and nurses of Long Khanh Regional General Hospital for their contributions in saving a patient who had a severe heart injury.

(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Health Department on November 5 held a ceremony to award certificates of merit to doctors and nurses of Long Khanh Regional General Hospital for their contributions in saving a patient who had a severe heart injury.

Earlier, on October 7, a 26-year-old man named Tho Tam, living in Xuan Loc district, was brought to the hospital after his heart had been penetrated by a stab.

The doctors diagnosed his health condition and gave him an emergency operation. After two-hour operation, the patient’s condition improved and recovered.

As known, the surgery was the eighth of its kind that have been successfully conducted at the hospital.

Reported by Q.C