Social development
Public health
New traffic law could save money and lives, study says
Better laws and enforcement that require motorbike riders and children to wear helmets could save more than 500 lives and $100 million over the next six years, a new study says. The study, undertaken by the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation, says a new law now ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-traffic-law-could-save-money-and-lives-study-says/1909680.html
Vietnamese funding curbs will not delay hospital development
Despite Vietnamese state-owned companies withdrawing funding from projects outside of their core business, the $20 million expansion of the Vietnamese-backed Cho Ray Phnom Penh Hospital remains on track, the hospital’s head said yesterday. In July 2012 the Vietnamese government requested that state-owned enterprises withdraw investment in ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnamese-funding-curbs-will-not-delay-hospital-development
Cancer clinic still operating without license
A clinic claiming to cure cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses through “detoxification” is operating without a license, five months after it opened illegally in Phnom Penh. The Immanuel Bicom True Healing Center in Chamkar Mon district came under scrutiny shortly after opening in early December ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cancer-clinic-still-operating-without-license-57875/
Cambodia sees 9 pct drop in malaria cases in Q1
Cambodia reported 10,000 malaria cases in the first three months of 2014, down 9 percent from about 11,000 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Thursday. ...
ASEAN - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/25/c_133290120.htm
Cambodia begins annual campaign to fight dengue fever
Cambodia on Thursday commenced its annual campaign to fight against dengue fever as the rainy season is approaching. Approximately 700 health officials, health-related non- governmental organization representatives, teachers and students gathered here to launch the campaign. Speaking at the event, Health Minister Mam Bunheng appealed to all ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133287180.htm
Hand, foot and mouth disease reoccurs in Cambodia, killing 1
Hand, foot and mouth disease ( HFMD), which is caused by enterovirus 71 (EV-71), has reappeared in Cambodia and recently killed a boy and sickened seven other children, a local Kampuchea Thmey Daily newspaper reported Wednesday. Dr. Ly Sovann, chief of the Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease ...
Asean - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/24/c_133286742.htm
Embracing a place called home
Before this past September, Nov Borom, a 52-year-old mother of five, lived with both a tenuous housing situation and HIV. But through a collaboration of several NGOs who sought to provide Cambodia’s most vulnerable people with housing able to withstand the region’s rainy season and floods, ...
Sean Teehan and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embracing-place-called-home
Free HPV tests target married women, nearly 500 screened
Nearly 500 women were tested this month in a screening drive at Phnom Penh’s Calmette Hospital for human papillomavirus (HPV), two strains of which are known to cause cervical cancer, but the free Pap smear was advertised as being available only to married women. Hav Monirath, ...
Hay Pisey and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/free-hpv-tests-target-married-women-nearly-500-screened-57082/
Gates couple makes visit to Cambodia
The world’s wealthiest person, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, made a brief appearance in the border town of Pailin on Saturday, where their foundation funds projects to combat drug-resistant malaria. According to staff at the Memoria Palace & Resort, the philanthropists met with health ministry ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gates-couple-makes-visit-cambodia
Medical students, Gov’t tussle over new exam
About half of the University of Health Science’s class of 2014 risks not graduating this year, having refused to register for a new compulsory final exam. A 2007 sub-decree states that a national-level examination for medical students would be implemented from that academic year onwards. But ...
Sinary Sany
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/medical-students-govt-tussle-over-new-exam-56780/
Chemicals used for soap, not drugs, police say
Thirty tons of chemicals seized by police on Wednesday were used to make counterfeit soap, officials confirmed Thursday, refusing to release the name of the Chinese national arrested in connection with the raid. The liquid and solid chemicals were stored in blue vats, bottles and sacks ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chemicals-used-for-soap-not-drugs-police-say-56444/
Thirty tons of fake soap chemicals seized in Kandal
Police on Wednesday busted what they believe to be an illegal soap-making operation, seizing 30 tons of illicit chemicals and arresting a Chinese national in Kandal province. The chemicals, which were held in blue vats, were discovered at a warehouse belonging to a Chinese businessman in ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thirty-tons-of-fake-soap-chemicals-seized-in-kandal-province-56273/
Acid services reduced
With acid attacks in steep decline – not a single attack has been recorded so far this year – the only organisation working directly with acid survivors on the ground is scaling back its services by 75 per cent. Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC) is no ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acid-services-reduced
Cambodia sees 87 pct drop in dengue fever cases in Q1
Cambodia had recorded 179 dengue fever cases in the first three months of this year, a 87 percent decrease from 1,393 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Friday. ...
ASEAN - China Center News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/05/c_133240824.htm
More than 100 workers faint at Shenzhou garment factory
More than 100 workers of Shenzhou garment factory in Phnom Penh fainted Thursday, one day after a similar mass fainting at the same factory. The first workers fainted at about 8 a.m., setting off a chain reaction that sent the entire workforce running from the factory ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-workers-faint-at-shenzhou-garment-factory-55766/
Mass faintings in Cambodia sicken over 200 garment workers
More than 200 Cambodian garment workers have been hospitalized after episodes of mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting problems within an industry that is critical to the kingdom’s fledgling economy. The plants all make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants Puma SE and Adidas. Both ...
Aljazeera America News Staff
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/3/over-200-cambodiangarmentworkersfaintonthejob.html
New clinic performs ‘operation smile’
Thirty-year-old Sam Hoiy never dreamed her son would have the opportunity to live a life without the cleft lip that has always marred his otherwise delicate features. Hoiy’s seven-month-old son is one of more than 100 Cambodians being treated and screened by a team of ...
Mom Kunthear and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-clinic-performs-%E2%80%98operation-smile%E2%80%99
New Clinic Marks Turning Point for Correcting Cleft Surgeries
In a bustling room at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, doctors from the Philippines, the U.S. and Nigeria gathered Sunday around a young boy, sitting in a plastic chair, and asked him to open his mouth wide. The boy is one of more than 100 ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-clinic-marks-turning-point-for-correcting-cleft-surgeries-55256/
Cambodia needs more actions to curb bird flu: PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that the country needed to prepare more measures to curb the spread of H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which broke out the worst last year and this year. “We have done a lot to control the spread of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/28/c_133220954.htm
A recipe for disaster
Small plastic packets filled with a mix of pills of various sizes, shapes and colours sit piled on the counter of a pharmacy in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, home to several large garment factories. At 2,000 riel a pop, about 50 cents, these packs are sold ...
Kevin Ponniah and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/recipe-disaster
Sub-Decree aims to better regulate pharmacies
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to better regulate pharmacies, a business fraught with fake drugs and fake diplomas. The new sub-decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics contains 71 articles. They ban distribution of fake drugs and the use of titles not ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sub-decree-aims-to-better-regulate-pharmacies-55138/
Grappling with avian flu, Cambodians wait for compensation
In little more than a year, 16 Cambodians are known to have died from the human form of avian influenza H5N1, the highest number of fatalities in the world. Experts have met in Phnom Penh to try to work out why. The latest victim of ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851455.shtml#.Uzd_zKiSyls
Unicef: Not all maternal deaths in Cambodia are being recorded
Many maternal fatalities in Cambodia are not being officially recorded, experts have warned. According to Unicef Cambodia, government figures indicate that the country’s maternal death rate is falling, the Phnom Penh Post reports. ...
Paul Robertson
http://www.figo.org/news/unicef-not-all-maternal-deaths-cambodia-are-being-recorded-0012076
Japan provides US$11 mln for maternal and child health project
Japan provides US$11.5 million in grand aids to Cambodia for the implementation of the Project for Expansion of National Maternal and Child Health Center. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWUxNDNlOTcxMjE