Deputy head of the hospital’s Rehabilitation Ward, Dr. Tran Thu Ha, said in just two weeks after employing the Peto treatment, seven children with cerebral palsy had made great progress.

Most often, children with cerebral palsy settle into wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. However, with Peto cerebral palsy treatment, which uses language and exercises, patients reportedly have a much higher chance of getting well again than with any other cure.

Katalin Szenczy, professor at Hungary’s Peto Institute, claims 80 percent of the children receiving the treatment have been able to attend elementary school. After six to eight years of treatment some have integrated with healthy children.

Ha said they became interested in doing more exercises and were able to do many things they hadn’t done before.

Doctors at the Vietnamese hospital received free training in the use of the technique by Hungary’s Baptist Aid whose core activities are the provision of humanitarian aid in times of natural disasters, development, and human and civil rights protection.

Reported by Thuy Anh – Compiled by Luu Thi Hong