Public health

Hospitals and clinics

Govt may sell medical services to Cambodia

The government will likely sell a Japanese-style medical service to Cambodia in a package that includes an emergency care center, a medical graduate school and an insurance system. The government has decided to seek a market for the medical service in emerging nations in the Association ...

The Japan News Staff
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000762523

Desperate for a Cure, Thousands Flock to Child Healer

DAMBE DISTRICT, Kompong Cham Province – Lying on makeshift stretchers, seated in cheap wheelchairs, blind people wearing dark glasses, children with twisted limbs and slack jaws—all sat on the dirt clasping smoking sticks of incense and muttering quiet prayers Tuesday, hoping to be healed. Among ...

Mech Dara and Kate Bartlett
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/desperate-for-a-cure-thousands-flock-to-child-healer-46239/

Park's own Cleveland clinic

As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ...

Sean Teehan, P.6
http://www.phnompenhpost.com

Sick children swamp hospital

As flood victims surge to the capital to receive medical treatment, doctors at Phnom Penh’s Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital say they’ve never seen such overcrowding. Parents holding their sick children and infants line the perimeter of the complex, spending up to seven hours crouched on hot ...

Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sick-children-swamp-hospital

With Only 10 Units, National Blood Bank Hits Year’s Lowest Level

Phnom Penh’s National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC) has dropped to its lowest level of the year, with only 10 units in stock and doctors relying heavily on patients’ family members and friends to donate in emergency situations, health officials said Thursday. NBTC Director Dr. Hok Kim ...

Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/with-only-10-units-national-blood-bank-hits-years-lowest-level-44405/

Chinese hospital ship arrives in Cambodia for goodwill visit

Chinese hospital ship “Peace Ark” arrived at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port on Tuesday as part of its overseas voyage to further enhance China- Cambodia ties and to provide medical services to local residents. The ship’s visit was to provide medical service to local people and ...

CCTV News Staff
http://english.cntv.cn/20130924/104726.shtml

Battling dengue on a shoestring

The man leading Cambodia’s seemingly Sisyphean attempt to combat dengue fever can be found most days in a weakly lit office inside the Communicable Disease Control Department, which is stacked wall to wall with drooping folders and medical texts. For more than 10 years, the soft-spoken ...

Amelia Woodside and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battling-dengue-shoestring

Young child makes bird flu recovery

A 15-month-old toddler who represented the 18th confirmed case of avian influenza in Cambodia this year has recovered and was released from Kantha Bopha hospital on Friday. The little boy from Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district developed a fever on August 16, and was transferred a ...

Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/young-child-makes-bird-flu-recovery

Kantha Bopha hospitals get another $1 million

The Cambodian government donated $1 million to Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals on July 18, said Minister of Health Mam Bunheng. The donation came to the free outpatient medical institution as it’s facing a budget shortfall.   ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071957508/National-news/kantha-bopha-hospitals-get-another-1-million.html

Women’s Cancer Hospital to Open in Phnom Penh in 2015

The construction of a new $17.5 million women’s cancer hospital specializing in gynecological services will break ground this summer, one of the co-founders said yesterday. Janne Ritskes, the director of Tabitha Cambodia, an organization that works to improve the lives of poor Cambodians, said the 220-bed ...

New Private Hospital to Employ 208 Cambodians

A new high-end private hospital in Phnom Penh, a collaboration between Cambodia’s Sokimex and Ho Chi Minh City’s well-known Cho-Ray Hospital, is set to hire 280 Cambodian health care workers in the next year, according to a Sunday satatement posted on the City Hall website. ...

http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/

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