FV Hospital woes

October 09, 2012 | 10:07

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Vietnam’s State President Office has stepped into the controversial cases of three patients’ deaths at FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

It has demanded the Ministry of Health (MoH) investigate and report back by October 30.

The families of Hanoi man Mai Trung Kien, Ba Ria-Vung Tau woman Nguyen Thi Ngoat and Ho Chi Minh City woman Nguyen Thi Can sent a joint complaint dated September 25 to President Truong Tan Sang, blaming FV Hospital doctors’ lack of professionalism and carelessness for the deaths.

Kien’s family said he died on late August 11, four days after undergoing surgery to remove his vermiform appendix at the hospital. An ad-hoc panel set up by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health later concluded that his death resulted from internal bleeding after surgery and that the hospital failed to make a timely diagnosis and treatments to stop the internal bleeding.

FV Hospital disputed the findings, claiming its evidence indicated that Kien died of a heart attack.
Meanwhile, in the second case Ngoat was brought to FV Hospital on May 29 to treat a broken left thigh bone. After FV doctors conducted a surgery the next day, Ngoat suffered from vomiting, high fever, high blood pressure and abdominal pains on June 1, her family claims. Her belly was swollen and she had difficulty breathing. She fell into a coma, then died on June 16. Her family blamed her death on the hospital’s carelessness.

Can, a patient with chronic kidney disease who used a dialysis machine, also was admitted to FV Hospital for a surgery on a broken thigh bone last year. She died later and Can’s family also blamed the hospital for the death.