Public health

Hospitals and clinics

Tech designer hopes to create better data system for hospitals

Programmer Kong Divin recently returned from a trip to the US, where he won second place in a Microsoft Office context in Texas. He had entered the same competition last year, but did not win any prizes, though it gave him the drive to return. ...

Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/2930672.html

Rural health centers remain underfunded, under-prepared

Cambodia launched a health strategic plan in 2002, in an effort to improve services to areas that lack medical personnel and resources. But in many rural areas, there has been little progress, and even an awareness of basic hygiene and disease prevention remains considerably low. ...

Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/rural-health-centers-remain-underfunded-under-prepared/2917998.html

After two-year lull, dengue fever bites

The sidewalk near Wat Phnom resembles the line outside a popular amusement park. Toy sellers walk by hawking plastic helicopters and rattles, as a line of more than a hundred parents and children sit and wait for the gates to open, cooling themselves with plastic ...

Jonathan Cox and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14256/after-two-year-lull--dengue-fever-bites/

Iv drips still the treatment of choice in Kratie

It used to be a common sight in Phnom Penh – a child wandering on a street with a needle in his hand, followed by a parent holding a bag of IV fluid. ...

Aisha Down and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13961/iv-drips-still-the-treatment-of-choice-in-kratie/

Dengue cases flying under the radar

Dengue fever can kill. But like the mosquitoes that carry the disease, the number of cases of dengue each year can be difficult to count. One thing is certain: the number of cases in Cambodia goes massively underreported every year. ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13844/dengue-cases-flying-under-the-radar/

Cambodia reports sharp rise in dengue fever cases in 1st half of 2015

The number of reported dengue fever cases has risen to 2,688 dengue in the first six months of this year, up 116 percent from the 1,245 cases over the same period last year, a statement from the Health Ministry said. ...

Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13719/cambodia-reports-sharp-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases-in-1st-half-of-2015/

Unlicensed dentist flees after robbing, killing patient

Police are searching for a 26-year-old unlicensed dentist in Tbong Khmum province who is believed to have used a rope to strangle a patient to death at his clinic in order to steal her jewelry and motorbike, along with about $3,000 in cash, an official ...

Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unlicensed-dentist-flees-after-robbing-killing-patient-88146/

Death sparks new rabies warnings

The recent death from rabies of a French resident of Kampot has caused coastal vets and doctors to call for increased vigilance and improved preventative measures in Cambodia, which is still classed as a “red” zone for the lethal virus. ...

Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12994/death-sparks-new-rabies-warnings/

Gov’t relies on thermal scans to prevent spread of MERS

In an effort to demonstrate government measures to prevent the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome from entering Cambodia—days after the disease was found in Thailand—the health minister showcased machines that detect people’s body temperature at Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-relies-on-thermal-scans-to-prevent-spread-of-mers-86331/

As MERS spreads, gov’t says it’s prepared

Following the first case of the potentially deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome being confirmed in Thailand on Thursday, government officials in Cambodia said entry points into the country were already equipped to prevent the disease from spreading here. ...

Maria Paula Brito and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-mers-spreads-govt-says-its-prepared-86039/

Man who sold clinic license faces 10 years’ imprisonment

A Cambodian man who sold his license to operate a medical clinic in Stung Treng City faces up to 10 years in prison after a woman died following an abortion conducted illegally on the premises, a court official said. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-who-sold-clinic-license-faces-10-years-imprisonment-85889/

Official arrested for botched op

The director of the Stung Treng Provincial Health Department and owner of the Stung Treng Sekong Clinic was arrested and sent to court yesterday after a doctor under his charge performed a botched abortion that resulted in a woman’s death.​ ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-arrested-botched-op

Over 3,000 illegal doctors in country: Ministry

A Health Ministry official said Thursday that an investigation in the wake of a devastating HIV outbreak in Battambang province’s Roka commune late last year had revealed more than 3,000 unlicensed doctors operating across the country. ...

Khy Sovuthy and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-3000-illegal-doctors-in-country-ministry-85893/

Three new Czech-funded takeo health centers

The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand has accused the country’s Khon Kaen Sugar of “serious human rights violations” at its two Cambodian plantations in a new report that urges the firm to return the land to the hundreds of families forced off their farms—some ...

Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-rights-body-censures-firm-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-84968/

Eighth villager dies in HIV-stricken Roka commune

An 89-year-old woman who was among the more than 240 villagers to test positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune died Monday, bringing the total number of deaths since the outbreak was first detected in December to eight. ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eighth-villager-dies-in-hiv-stricken-roka-commune-82219/

Bad year ahead for dengue

Dengue fever cases in the Kingdom have increased by nearly 80 per cent compared with the same period last year, and the Cambodia National Malaria Center (CNM) said yesterday that it expects a continued surge throughout 2015. ...

Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bad-year-ahead-dengue

Cambodian villagers say medical treatment is a pain following government directive

Villagers in a remote district of northeast Cambodia’s Kratie province say obtaining medical treatment has become extremely difficult since the government reinforced a ban on unlicensed health workers and clinics earlier this month in the wake of a mass HIV infection last year. ...

Preach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/treatment-03242015170703.html

Hospital sued for negligence in stillbirth

A Preah Vihear military police officer filed a court complaint accusing hospital staff of murder after his wife died in hospital during a stillbirth. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hospital-sued-negligence-stillbirth

Patient death blamed on doctors’ holiday leave

The parents of a man who died at the Svay Rieng provincial referral hospital of wounds sustained in a motorbike crash say their son might have survived if doctors had not been absent from work celebrating Chinese New Year, and are planning to file a ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/patient-death-blamed-on-doctors-holiday-leave-78498/

Unauthorised drugs found in Siem Reap raid

Over 470,000 units of unauthorised or expired drugs were confiscated during a crackdown on unlicensed medical facilities in Siem Reap City this week, according to provincial police. The inspections of health facilities started on Friday with city economic police working with the provincial health department to ...

Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unauthorised-drugs-found-siem-reap-raid

Thai hospital inaugurated in Cambodia

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday inaugurated a Thai-funded hospital, which targets middle- and high-class patients. The 50-million-U.S. dollar Royal Phnom Penh Hospital is a tertiary care hospital managed by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company, Chairman of the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Prasert Prasatthong ...

Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=253219

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