A six-year-old Vietnamese boy will receive Vietnam’s first lung transplant surgery.

The operation will be carried out by Japan’s Okayama University Hospital on or around February 21.

A team of about 30 people, including surgeons and anesthesiologists, will perform the operation in a hospital in Hanoi.

The boy suffers from lung fibrosis, a disease that causes respiratory failure.

He will receive part of lungs from his father and another relative.

– TiVi Tuan-san