AKIPRESS.COM - Director of the First Central Hospital on Mongolia Batsuuri Byambadorj and representatives of the Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital (South Korea) signed a memorandum of cooperation to launch bone marrow transplant in Mongolia within 5 years, according to News.mn.

The Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital is ranked first in Asia and fifth in the world for bone marrow transplant, a procedure to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells.

The procedure requires higher technology and more specific methodology than Mongolia can currently provide. Thanks to the law on high-cost medicine and medical equipment, the costs on transplantation of stem cells and bone marrow reduced in the country by 25-30 million togrog (around US$15 thousand).

Doctors of the First Central Hospital of Monoglia did bone marrow transplant surgery twice, in 2011 and 2014. The first one took place within the framework of the project to transplant blood stem cells in cooperation with the Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital. In 2014, Mongolian doctors did the operation this by themselves.