Public health

Hospitals and clinics

New era looms for Kantha Bopha

During the first six months of this year, the hospitals recorded $7.7 million in private donations from Switzerland, compared to $7.4 million during the first six months in 2016, according to Laurent.   ...

Yesenia Amaro and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-era-looms-kantha-bopha

Prime Minister vows to keep children’s hospitals running

Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country’s popular Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-vows-to-keep-childrens-hospitals-running-2-132837/

Visa-free medical travel period tripled by Thais

The Thai government on Wednesday publicly announced that nationals of five countries, including Cambodia, can visit Thailand for up to 90 days without a visa to seek medical treatment, an official at the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday. ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/visa-free-medical-travel-period-tripled-thais

Switzerland to keep supporting Richner’s hospitals

The Swiss government has vowed to help secure long-term financial sustainability for the Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals. Last week Beat Richner, the founder and head of the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital and a Health Ministry adviser, resigned from his position as managing director due to health ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37191/switzerland-to-keep-supporting-richner---s-hospitals/

Beat Richner quits as head of Kantha Bopha Hospitals

Doctor Beat Richner, the prominent Swiss-born doctor credited with resurrecting the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals – which have treated millions of patients free of charge since 1992 – stepped down from his more than two-decade role of managing the hospitals, citing a serious illness. ...

Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beat-richner-quits-head-kantha-bopha-hospitals

Hospital founder seriously ill

Beat Richner, the founder and head of the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital and a Health Ministry adviser, is seriously ill and has resigned from his position as managing director. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37053/hospital-founder-seriously-ill/

China to donate new infectious disease lab

Cambodia and China inked a deal yesterday to build a new communicable disease control facility in the Kingdom for the country to expand its capacity to detect and respond to communicable disease outbreaks, such as Zika and Ebola, in a timely fashion. ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-donate-new-infectious-disease-lab

Ministry of health bans surrogate pregnancy

The health minister has banned surrogate pregnancy arrangements in the country, putting the brakes on what appeared to be a quickly expanding—if controversial—industry. The move comes just days after the justice minister called for the practice to be outlawed. ...

Sonia Kohlbacher and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-health-bans-surrogate-pregnancy-120116/

Japanese Hospital Opens for Tourists

At the unveiling of the new Japanese-owned Sunrise Hospital in Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that such tourist-focused medical facilities would boost confidence in visitors and investors to Cambodia. Mr. Hun Sen described the $35 million hospital in Chrouy Changvar district, which on its ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29972/japanese-hospital-opens-for-tourists/

Turkish health care firms take local market’s pulse

Turkish companies looking to expand operations in the Kingdom’s health care industry were among the most visible participants of a trade exposition held in Phnom Penh over the weekend. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/turkish-health-care-firms-take-local-markets-pulse

Kantha Bopha to get Angkor donations in February

Two dollars from the sale of every ticket to the Angkor temple complex will go to the Kantha Bopha hospitals in February 2017, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance yesterday. A letter sent to Dr. Beat Richner, the founder for the Kantha Bopha Children’s ...

San Bunsim and Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28217/kantha-bopha-to-get-angkor-donations-in-february/

Children in need of free healthcare

A majority of the more than 2,500 children hospitalized by illnesses in the Kantha Bopha hospital network between Sunday and yesterday were critically poor and could not survive without free treatment, Kantha Bopha hospital founder and head Dr. Beat Richner said. ...

San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27424/children-in-need-of-free-healthcare/

Health ministry seeks better expense reports

The Ministry of Health has issued a set of guidelines calling on referral hospitals and health centres to provide increased documentation of their expenses with an aim of introducing more “transparency” to official spending.   ...

Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-ministry-seeks-better-expense-reports

Health department to probe newborn’s death

The Phnom Penh health department has announced an investigation into the death of a newborn who allegedly choked while being fed by staff at the privately owned VIP Sorphea Maternity Hospital.   ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-department-probe-newborns-death

Kantha Bopha nets $6.5M in royal villa sale

The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals have sold a royal residence in Koh Kong province to the government for about $6.5 million after it was donated to them in October by the king and queen mother.   ...

Khy Sovuthy and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kantha-bopha-nets-millions-111015/

Doctors to be on standby during new year

The Ministry of Health has ordered provincial health department directors to organize officials and doctors to work during the four days of Khmer New Year so hospitals and health centers are able to respond to traffic accidents and other issues. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23703/doctors-to-be-on-standby-during-new-year/

Beat Richner appointed advisor to ministry of health

In a ceremony on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health appointed a new advisor – the Swiss Dr. Beat Richner, founder of the Kantha Bopha Hospital and Foundation. His hospitals have treated more than 15 million children since the first one opened in 1991 and Minister ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23412/beat-richner-appointed-advisor-to-ministry-of-health/

US army looks to store field hospital in Cambodia

The U.S. Army is looking to store a mobile emergency field hospital in Cambodia to be used in the case of a regional disaster, a defense industry news website reported last week.   ...

Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-army-looks-to-store-field-hospital-in-cambodia-110166/

Police ordered to inspect private ambulance licenses

National Police and National Military Police have been ordered by the Health Ministry to inspect the licenses of all private ambulances, which are often seen fighting for business at the scene of traffic accidents before charging exorbitant prices for their services. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-ordered-to-inspect-private-ambulance-licenses-104535/

Ministry vows to wipe out unlicensed clinics

More than 1,300 unlicensed medical clinics were shut down in 2015 and the remaining 900 will be closed in 2016, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said on Tuesday, ostensibly putting an end to lax medical standards that have allowed for scandals such as the mass HIV ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-vows-to-wipe-out-unlicensed-clinics-104517/

A country in love with injections and drips

In Cambodia almost anyone who sees a doctor or goes to hospital, is given an injection or put on an intravenous drip. This is what patients want, and what medical staff give them – it has become part of the healthcare routine. But it has ...

John Murphy
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35111566

Kratie bans rice wine production after 17 die

Authorities in Kratie province have ordered an emergency ban on the production of rice wine as the death toll from methanol poisoning in the province over the past five days rose to 17 with the deaths on Sunday of five people in Chet Borei district. ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-bans-rice-wine-production-after-17-die-102892/

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