Doctors commended for saving man from rare major artery rupture

02:07, 03/07/2015

(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Health Department on June 29  held a ceremony to award certificates of merit to Thong Nhat General Hospital and its three doctors for contributions in saving a patient whose major artery in chest and inter-costal artery had been penetrated and ruptured with high mortality rate.

 

(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Health Department on June 29  held a ceremony to award certificates of merit to Thong Nhat General Hospital and its three doctors for contributions in saving a patient whose major artery in chest and inter-costal artery had been penetrated and ruptured with high mortality rate.

Earlier, on June 4, the man named Tran Cong Luc, living in Tan Phu district’s Phu Lam commune, was brought to the hospital in a critical condition. He was unconscious and had lost a lot of blood due to multiple traumatic injuries in abdomen and chest.

The doctors diagnosed his health condition and gave him an emergency operation. The patient’s condition improved and recovered after five hours of operation.

The patient have recovered and already discharged from hospital.

Reported by S.M