Vietnam kidney patients recall horror after dialysis deaths

Vietnamese health officials were scrambling for answers today after seven people died while receiving dialysis, as survivors recounted horror stories from the country's worst medical disaster in recent years.

Eleven people are being treated after the incident, including one in critical condition.

"I would like to apologise to families and the whole community, we are very surprised at this rare incident," said Truong Quy Duong, director of Hoa Binh Province General Hospital where the incident took place yesterday, according to a clip on state media.

All medical equipment and drugs in the kidney care department have been sealed off at the state-run hospital and both police and Health Ministry officials said today a criminal investigation had been launched.

School teacher Nguyen Thi Bich Nguyen went in for the routine procedure before things went awry.

"She became itchy all over her body, she had a stomachache and vomited," her husband Le Tien Dung told

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