Ministries and other national bodies
Ministry of Health
Two ministries anticipate budget increase
The ministers of education and health said Monday they expect an 18 and 15 percent increase to their ministries’ budgets, respectively, in the draft 2015 national budget signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday. ...
Hul Reaksmey and Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-ministries-anticipate-budget-increase-71118/
Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital nationalised
Siem Reap’s Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital, which has provided free medical treatment since 1998, has been transferred to the Ministry of Health, the Post has learned. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kantha-bopha-childrens-hospital-nationalised
Ebola measures have been taken, gov’t tells investors
As world leaders vowed to dramatically step up the global response to the Ebola virus this week, the Cambodian government sought to reassure investors that they are making adequate preparations to contain an outbreak in the Kingdom. Speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/ebola-measures-have-been-taken-gov%E2%80%99t-tells-investors
New community-based drug program to launch
Municipal officials on Tuesday announced a new initiative to help rehabilitate Phnom Penh’s drug addicts by offering discreet treatment services at local health centers. The initiative will encourage commune-level officials to visit known drug addicts in their community and tell them about the treatment options available at ...
Khy Sovuthy and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-community-based-drug-program-to-launch-68130/
China to deliver 200 ambulances to Cambodia for health sector development
The Chinese government provided 200 sets of ambulances to the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Friday to contribute to the development of health sector. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo signed to deliver the ambulances to Cambodian Minister of Health Mam Bunheng. ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0912/c90883-8782114.html
Cambodia takes measures to detect Ebola virus in travelers
As the deadly Ebola virus continues to plague parts of western Africa, Cambodia has since August put in place detection measures at its international airports and border crossings to screen for several diseases. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-takes-measures-to-detect-ebola-virus-in-travelers/2442400.html
Draft law to address underage drinking
A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation, which many see as a tool to fight excessive youth drinking and drunken ...
Joe Freeman
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-law-address-underage-drinking
ADB gives update on aid for railway families
The government has finished calculating the additional compensation it will pay out to some of the families forced to move for a $143 million railway rehabilitation project being funded mostly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), according to a new report. The report, released this week ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-gives-update-on-aid-for-railway-families-67520/
Hun Sen announces raises for teachers, nurses
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced a three-stage plan to raise the salaries of civil servants working under the Education and Health ministries, with the first increase to come in September. Speaking to graduating students at Beltei University in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen said that ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-announces-raises-for-teachers-nurses-67017/
CNRP to probe organ claims
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to launch an investigation into organ trafficking in Cambodia following the mysterious case of an alleged kidney ring operating out of a military hospital in Phnom Penh. Mu Sochua, a CNRP lawmaker and head of the newly formed National ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-probe-organ-claims
Cambodia sees no report of Ebola, urges public to take precautionary measures
Cambodia has not seen any case related to the West Africa-hit Ebola virus disease and called for its citizens to take precautionary measures against the virus, said a joint statement released by the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization on Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140805/cambodia-sees-no-report-ebola-urges-public-take-precautionar
Concerns Cambodia's fight against HIV/AIDS undermined by funding cuts, government policy
Experts fear Cambodia’s well-earned reputation as a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS could be undermined by government policy targeting the country’s high-risk groups. Over the past 15 years, government action and large amounts of money from donors have seen the infection rate drop from 2 ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-24/cambodia-hiv-efforts-could-be-undermined-by-government-misst/5621218
Thais mandate migrant worker health checks
On the road to legal employment in Thailand, Cambodian migrant workers are being made to undergo check-ups that have them cough, strip and give blood and urine samples to prove they are physically and mentally sound enough to work in the country. Obtaining a workers’ permit, ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thais-mandate-migrant-worker-health-checks
Cambodia sees 83 pct drop in dengue fever cases in first half
Cambodia has reported 1,005 dengue fever cases in the first six months of 2014, down 83 percent from 6,039 cases in the same period last year, a health official said Friday. Char Meng Chuor, director of the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, said ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-07/04/c_133460228.htm
No signs of H7N9 flu, MERS coronavirus identified in Cambodia: health official
Cambodia has not seen any case of H7N9 bird flu virus and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, a senior health official said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on the awareness of H7N9 and MERS coronavirus, Dr. Ly Sovann, director of the health ministry’s communicable ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-06/23/c_133430670.htm
Life-saving diabetes program in limbo as state funds fall through
Every week, dozens of diabetics gather at a home in the Boeng Kak lake neighborhood to have their weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure checked. They are among 12,000 impoverished people across the country taking part in the NGO MoPoTsyo’s peer support program, which allows ...
Holly Robertson and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/life-saving-diabetes-program-in-limbo-as-govt-funds%E2%80%88fall-through-62063/
Factory faintings back on rise
More than 600 workers have fainted on factory floors so far this year, compared with about 800 such incidents over the whole of 2013, a Labour Ministry official said yesterday. Pok Vanthat, deputy director of the ministry’s labour health department and head of a committee that ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-faintings-back-rise
25 found guilty for roles in garment protests; sentences suspended
Twenty-five unionists, garment workers and bystanders were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for their involvement in three separate garment protest-related cases, but were handed down suspended sentences. The 22 men who had not been bailed ahead of trial were ordered ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/25-found-guilty-for-roles-in-garment-protests-sentences-suspended-60092/
Chamkar Mon Hospital land for sale online
The land on which the former Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital sits was put up for sale for $12.1 million on Friday, just days after a municipal health official denied that the property would be sold. According to an advertisement posted on the Khmer24 classified advertising website, ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/chamkar-mon-hospital-land-for-sale-online-for-12-1m-59503/
NGOs begin to stop the rot of Cambodian teeth
Every day for weeks on end, 6-year-old Srey Nuch was tormented by severe pain caused by several of her teeth rotting away. Her mother, Lay Vicheka, despaired when she heard her daughter’s cries, knowing the family was far too poor to pay a dentist to fix ...
Holly Robertson and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/ngos-starting-to-stop-the-rot-of-cambodian-teeth-59490/
Health progress lauded
Cambodia’s progress in reducing maternal mortality was recognised internationally this week at the 67th World Health Assembly in Switzerland. Efforts to increase the number of skilled birth attendants and an increase in the number of 24-hour emergency centres available to pregnant women were both credited with ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-progress-lauded
Cambodia has some 13,000 drug addicts: anti-drug chief
About 13,000 people, aged between 18 and 35 years old, have been using drugs in Cambodia, up from roughly 7,000 users in 2007, Meas Vyrith, secretary general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), said Wednesday. “It is estimated that a drug user spends about ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140521/cambodia-has-some-13000-drug-addicts-anti-drug-chief
Benefits for teachers? Not yet
The government has a response to teachers’ request for health insurance: We’ll provide it if you buy it. At a meeting in Takeo province this past weekend, the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA) said an upcoming teacher strike would include health insurance on the list of ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/benefits-teachers-not-yet
Year-on-year dengue cases drop sharply
Dengue fever deaths and infections have fallen dramatically during the first two-and-a-half months of this year compared to the same period in 2013, according to the government’s latest figures. Nhan Chantha, head of the Health Ministry’s national dengue control program, said his staff recorded one death ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/year-on-year-dengue-cases-drop-sharply-58664/