Man healed, held against will

Today, a month to the day after his stomach ruptured, Term Hun, 49, remains hospitalised. He was operated on and has long since healed. But without the money to pay for his treatment, the clinic refuses to let him go. … After receiving emergency surgery at Polyclinic Hong En in Phnom Penh for a torn stomach, Hun was told that Great Field (Cambodia) International Ltd, the Kampong Speu province sugarcane factory at which Hun and his wife live and work, had not paid his bill in full and that he could not leave until the remaining $2,000 was paid. …

Koam Chanrasmey and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-healed-held-against-will