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 Nokor Tep Women’s Hospital, which plans to open in 2015 in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district, will also act as a training center for oncological professionals and include a cancer research wing. …