Maternal health gets a boost in 3 provinces

14 August 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Aid and development / Development policy and administration / Gender / Maternal and child health / Mental health and social services / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development / Women in development
Birgit Strube / Chan Thery / German Development Cooperation / Hospitals and clinics / Kampong Thom / Kampot / Kampot Province / Kep / Kep province / Kompong Thom Province / Maternal and Child Health / public health / Reproductive and Child Health Alliance / social development / UNICEF

About 300,000 women of reproductive age will receive higher-quality emergency obstetric and newborn-care services thanks to a sizeable handover of medical equipment and supplies to government health centres and hospitals in Kampong Thom, Kampot and Kep provinces. Through a partnership seeking to improve the social healthcare sector in Cambodia, the Cambodian-German “Muskoka” project, German Development Cooperation and Unicef have procured equipment valued at more than $500,000. … Medical supplies like ultrasound scanners, fetal heart detectors, sterilising apparatus, surgical sterilising instruments and resuscitators will keep Cambodia on track to achieving its Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality, proponents maintain. …

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