Doctor Trung burst into tears and hugged his mother for the last time after donating her corneas to medicine, fulfilling her last wish - Photo: T.DUONG
On the morning of September 25, the Tissue Bank - Hanoi Eye Hospital 2 received a phone call informing that a son wanted to donate his mother's cornea to bring light to a blind patient.
The cornea donor was an 80-year-old woman who passed away at 5:18 a.m. on September 25. The person who called the Tissue Bank to express his wish to donate his mother's cornea was military doctor, Dr. Nguyen Le Trung, deputy head of the ophthalmology department at Military Hospital 103.
In the moments of grief, the son calmly called the Eye Bank - Hanoi Eye Hospital 2, deciding to donate his mother's corneas.
Everything was done quickly, the old man's corneas were collected by technicians from the Eye Bank - Hanoi Eye Hospital 2.
During the entire process, her son stood quietly observing from a corner of the room. Only when the technicians had finished removing the cornea did the son come closer, stroked his mother's head, then hugged her and burst into tears...
Dr. Trung's mother is Captain Le Thi Hong Minh, former employee of the Pharmacy Department at Military Hospital 103.
Before she died, she expressed her wish to donate her corneas to help blind patients.
Her son, an ophthalmologist, suppressed the pain of losing his mother to fulfill this noble wish.
"As specialists at the Eye Bank - Hanoi Eye Hospital 2, although we have witnessed it many times, we still cannot help but be speechless at the above scene.
At times like these, what is given is never just a pair of corneas, but also the infinite love that is sent before giving them away," said a representative of the Eye Bank.
Her corneas were later successfully transplanted into two patients, at two different hospitals.
300,000 people need corneal transplant surgery
It is estimated that Vietnam currently has over 300,000 people who are blind due to corneal disease and need corneal transplant surgery to regain their sight.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, since the first cornea donation in April 2007 by Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hoa (in Con Thoi, Kim Son, Ninh Binh), the country has recorded about 1,000 people donating corneas after death.
Although corneal transplant surgery in Vietnam has reached an advanced and modern level, due to the limited corneal resources, hundreds of thousands of patients are forced to accept living blindly, waiting for the only source of corneas from donors after death.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/rot-nuoc-mat-bac-si-om-me-lan-cuoi-sau-khi-hien-giac-mac-me-20240928195229604.htm
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