Special surgery and allowance of 280,000 VND

Doctors at Viet Duc Hospital transplanted hearts and livers to patients - Photo: Provided by the hospital

Ten days after the transplant, 70% of the patient's life was saved, while previously his life was counted in days because conventional treatments could not respond.

According to Mr. Duong Duc Hung - Director of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, major surgeries like this require a well-coordinated team, right from the organ receiving stage.

On September 30, upon receiving information about the organ donor in Nghe An, the doctors went to Nghe An, divided into two groups, one group stayed to help Nghe An General Hospital transplant kidneys for two people (from the donated kidney of this donor), the other group transported the heart and liver to Hanoi. Before that, they had to resuscitate the tissues and organs so that the transplant would be most effective.

And even during a transplant, failure can happen at any time, even when the transplant is completed, cardiac arrest can still occur, so anesthesiologists must continuously monitor to handle it.

A team of skilled doctors meticulously monitor every minute to get the best results.

Not only the patient, but also his whole family, including his parents, wife and two young children, all hope for a happy ending. That joy is thanks to the organ donor and the doctors.

But surprisingly, besides sharing about the hardships of doctors to save patients' lives as a passion, Mr. Duong Duc Hung said that regardless of the length of the surgery, including special surgeries like this, the main doctors and the main anesthetists only receive an allowance of 280,000 VND, while the assistant surgeons and the assistant anesthetists receive an allowance of 200,000 VND.

For type 1 surgeries, the main doctor receives a stipend of 125,000 VND, equivalent to more than two bowls of pho in the city.

It would be lame to compare the spirit of saving lives of doctors and nurses with money. But there is another perspective that we need to be more fair so that doctors and nurses, especially young people, in addition to their passion for treating and saving lives, also have more motivation to learn and improve their knowledge and new, complex techniques that the world already has. That will only benefit patients and the country's healthcare sector.

In fact, not only in the country, there are Vietnamese people living abroad who have returned to the country to register on the waiting list to receive organs, because they have great confidence in the skills of Vietnamese doctors.

And doctors when reporting abroad are also confident that Vietnamese doctors not only come to listen like before, but also come to talk about their experiences.

Many foreign doctors have come to Vietnam to study spinal surgery, endoscopic surgery, and dentistry. Vietnam is also providing undergraduate and postgraduate medical training to hundreds of students from India...

To achieve this result requires investment, not only the State and hospitals but also individuals and professionals. To invest, there must be funding, for individuals, it means money.

Knowing that the medical profession is classified as a "special profession and is treated specially", but that treatment, through the allowance issued since 2011, is not clear whether it can still be called "special" when the current price is very different from the present. The Ministry of Health is also amending but has not yet applied it.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/ca-mo-dac-biet-va-khoan-phu-cap-280-000-dong-20241011100626902.htm