Social development

Public health

Untrained & unlicensed: a look at Cambodia’s public health system

When the Cambodia National Assembly passed the 2016 national budget last December Cambodia’s public health system was not high on the list for additional resources, receiving a meager 8 per cent increase from the year prior, or $275 million. Admirably education received a boost of ...

Vat Vin
http://aecnewstoday.com/2016/untrained-unlicensed-a-look-at-cambodias-public-health-system/#axzz4ACZjGB7U

Gov’t warns of rainy season diseases

The director of the Communicable Disease Control (CDC) Department at the Ministry of Health has urged the public to protect themselves from diseases that are easily spread in the upcoming rainy season, including dengue fever, malaria, acute watery diarrohea and influenza. ...

Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25567/gov---t-warns-of-rainy-season-diseases/

Organ transplant, donation draft law approved

The Council of Ministers approved a draft law last week regulating and controlling organ donations and transplants in response to a World Health Organization (WHO) report which revealed that the lives of patients with non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes could be further endangered following ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25517/organ-transplant--donation-draft-law-approved/

Warnings to be placed on cigarette packs

In what appears to be part of a wider push to cut down on smoking in the Kingdom, cigarette companies will have to publish pictorial and text warnings that take up 55 percent of each packet by the end of July, according to the Ministry ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25477/warnings-to-be-placed-on-cigarette-packs/

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

Cambodia's health care system struggles to cope with mentally ill patients

As soon as the clock struck seven in the morning, a commotion broke out in front of an old, yellow building inside the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. More than 40 people flocked to the main metal door separating them from the waiting area and consultation rooms. Some ...

Pichayada Promchertchoo
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodia-s-health-care/2811180.html

Outcry over acid use in food

Allegations that acetic acid imported from Thailand is being used in recipes to replace lemon juice in Banteay Meanchey and Battambang provinces has caused an outcry on social media. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25403/outcry-over-acid-use-in-food/

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

Amid drought, diarrhea poses severe threat

Teachers at Toul Mead Primary School in Siem Reap province tell students to bring drinking water from home to keep them hydrated in the scorching heat. But water is increasingly hard to come by as the worst drought in decades drags on.   ...

Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-drought-diarrhea-poses-severe-threat-112822/

Meeting touts new approach to rehab

Officials from provinces across the country gathered in Banteay Meanchey yesterday and the day before to learn about alternative community-based drug rehabilitation services and vocational training, anti-drug officials said.   ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-touts-new-approach-rehab

Maternal, child health outpacing neighbours

Cambodia is among 10 countries that achieved accelerated progress in maternal and child health – ahead of comparable countries – by meeting goals to reduce mortality among those population groups, according to a recent cross-country analysis by the WHO.   ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maternal-child-health-outpacing-neighbours

Illegal oil leads to arrests

Two farmers were arrested and charged yesterday after police found more than 100 liters of safrole oil in their Sala Kumrou village residence in Pursat City’s Phteash Prey commune, according to police chief Lieutenant Colonel Chhorn Rith. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24716/illegal-oil-leads-to-arrests/

Pesticides blamed for sickening 31 in Battambang

Water contaminated by pesticides has been blamed for poisoning 31 people in Battambang’s Samlot district.   ...

Kong Meta and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pesticides-blamed-sickening-31-battambang

Two at Ratanakkiri hospital axed for fund mismanagement

Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-ratanakkiri-hospital-axed-fund-mismanagement

As fast food takes hold, health fears grow

As the temperature in Phnom Penh crested 39 degrees celcius on Tuesday, a young British couple stepped into the air-conditioned embrace of Burger King.   ...

Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-fast-food-takes-hold-health-fears-grow-112289/

Cambodia waiting for WHO dengue vaccine approval

Although the number of dengue fever cases in Cambodia nearly tripled during the first 17 weeks of 2016 compared to the same period last year, a health official said a vaccine for the mosquito-borne virus still needs to be vetted by the WHO before local ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-waiting-who-dengue-vaccine-approval

Non-communicable diseases rising threat

Health Ministry officials said that 43 percent of deaths in the Kingdom in 2014 were caused by non-communicable diseases, a figure which is expected to rise. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24623/non-communicable-diseases-rising-threat/

Agriculture minister to ban low-grade imported meat

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has announced a ban on all imported low-grade meat from neighboring countries as part of a national reform of the Kingdom’s meat industry. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24621/agriculture-minister-to-ban-low-grade-imported-meat/

New baby makes waves on way to hospital

A baby was born at sea on Monday afternoon in Koh Kong province after a mother went in labor on a boat on her way to hospital. ...

Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24536/new-baby-makes-waves-on-way-to-hospital/

Disease-carrying bats to be tracked

Scientists are attaching tracking devices to a colony of flying foxes near Phnom Penh in a bid to prevent a possible outbreak of a deadly virus. ...

Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disease-carrying-bats-be-tracked

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