By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Relatives of a victim who died in the “Sralanh Tearok” (Baby love) hospital or the National Center for Protection of Mother and Baby, located in Phnom Penh, have accused the indifferent doctors in the hospital for neglecting their pleas to conduct a urgent surgery on 32-year-old Phy Sophorn, and letting her die with her full term baby still in her stomach.
65-year-old Hor Yim from Kampong Cham province, the mother of the victim, made the following accusation: “I beg them to do a surgery for her, they wouldn’t do it, they let her be until she died. The doctors told her to have an ultrasound, after that, they said that the baby died in her stomach. Therefore, they told me to go pay (the fee) first, and bring back the receipt back to them first, I went to pay and get the receipt. I asked them to do a surgery on her first, they don’t want to do the surgery unless they see the receipt, but I couldn’t get the receipt back on time.”
Regarding this accusation, Dr. Kroch Sary of the Sralanh Tearok Hospital provided a clarification in reaction to the accusations leveled by the victim’s family, he said that relatives of the family left her under critical condition for too long until she could no longer be saved anymore before they brought her to the hospital. The victim broker her water for almost a week already, and the baby died and decomposed in her stomach. She was ridden with infections, and had very high fever, her limb extremities were all cold already, this meant that she can no longer be saved.
Dr. Kroch Sary said: “Her water broke almost a week already, the mother had problems, she was infected by the broken water. The doctors followed up on her case, they never neglected her like her mother said, I am telling you, I am rejecting (her accusation), my doctors and my nurses were following up on her all along.”
Dr. Kroch Sary said that his group of doctors helped save the victim by giving her shots and giving her oxygen to breathe, but the victim’s body rejected them because her blood pressure was very weak. He indicated that the hospital has no policy of paying compensation, but only to return back the service fee paid to the hospital.
Regarding the issue above, Mrs. Lim Mony, an investigator for the Adhoc human rights group openly reacted by saying: “I have seen on many occasions, with my own eyes, what the (family of the) victims reported. I saw with my own eyes, that when they arrived, they have to fill in all the forms, they were sent to look for money (to pay the hospital fee). Some of them came with some money, but they don’t have enough.
According to a group of doctors, the number of cases of pregnant women death during delivery amounted to 470 for the entire country in 2006, whereas, in 2004, this number was at 430.
A source indicated that death among pregnant women during delivery stems from several factors, including, the lack of knowledge, and weak health services.
65-year-old Hor Yim from Kampong Cham province, the mother of the victim, made the following accusation: “I beg them to do a surgery for her, they wouldn’t do it, they let her be until she died. The doctors told her to have an ultrasound, after that, they said that the baby died in her stomach. Therefore, they told me to go pay (the fee) first, and bring back the receipt back to them first, I went to pay and get the receipt. I asked them to do a surgery on her first, they don’t want to do the surgery unless they see the receipt, but I couldn’t get the receipt back on time.”
Regarding this accusation, Dr. Kroch Sary of the Sralanh Tearok Hospital provided a clarification in reaction to the accusations leveled by the victim’s family, he said that relatives of the family left her under critical condition for too long until she could no longer be saved anymore before they brought her to the hospital. The victim broker her water for almost a week already, and the baby died and decomposed in her stomach. She was ridden with infections, and had very high fever, her limb extremities were all cold already, this meant that she can no longer be saved.
Dr. Kroch Sary said: “Her water broke almost a week already, the mother had problems, she was infected by the broken water. The doctors followed up on her case, they never neglected her like her mother said, I am telling you, I am rejecting (her accusation), my doctors and my nurses were following up on her all along.”
Dr. Kroch Sary said that his group of doctors helped save the victim by giving her shots and giving her oxygen to breathe, but the victim’s body rejected them because her blood pressure was very weak. He indicated that the hospital has no policy of paying compensation, but only to return back the service fee paid to the hospital.
Regarding the issue above, Mrs. Lim Mony, an investigator for the Adhoc human rights group openly reacted by saying: “I have seen on many occasions, with my own eyes, what the (family of the) victims reported. I saw with my own eyes, that when they arrived, they have to fill in all the forms, they were sent to look for money (to pay the hospital fee). Some of them came with some money, but they don’t have enough.
According to a group of doctors, the number of cases of pregnant women death during delivery amounted to 470 for the entire country in 2006, whereas, in 2004, this number was at 430.
A source indicated that death among pregnant women during delivery stems from several factors, including, the lack of knowledge, and weak health services.
11 comments:
these are people who do not care about the Khmer people. Please don't let these type of people be born in Khmer or come to work in Khmer.
How can a doctor who swears an oath to protect wait for money to operate? Money can be deal later when life is most urgent call. The doctor is a shameful person with ethics. Should get his license suspended for a short time to learn these ethics of medicine before re-entry.
without ethics*
How could these Cambodian doctors care about more about saving lives than about making money when the country's leaders only care about being as corrupt as possible? Most people in Cambodia only care about money, not about other people.
What was happened is one of the results of the corruption in Cambodia... With corruption this fucking government has no money to improve the health services and most of the poors in this country will live like frogs and die like snakes.
So who should be blamed for this mistake? I feel pity for the victim families and the health staff... The one to blame is Hun Xen and his followers.
Is it a new culture of Cambodia?
Road accident police searching of money or property from victim before taking care of the person. Patient on life threatening condition doctor asking for money before taking action. School kits teacher asking for daily payment before starting class...
Is this a new culture, who create these?
People, polices, dotors, teachers, who else?
Are these not the result of SAMDACH !!!! are these not the other way of Khmer rough? Could these people brough to tribunal?
If this victim was one of Hun Sen or CPP officers daughter.Dr Kroch and nurses at this (Baby love)hospital will be kneeling down beg for their life (all shit on their pants).
Sick of these Doctors,Firemen and the rest Goverment officers.
All are just bunch of tonsorng koprey.
A6,
What are the value of life in Cambodia.
Great for the rich and powerfull. This group own every thing. They own the country, the resources including the people.
What happen for the poor or midle class, this group are slave. Life if nothing.
Cambodia is the country of slavery in the civilization time.
that is how the system work in Hun Sen's regime.
ah kvack is really really kvack.
What is a bunch of rubbishes, no hospital on this planet can saved anyone who is totally infected beyond the point of no return. Only God can do that.
With all these corrupt politicians and slutty entertainers as their idols and role models, have many Khmers embraced a culture of greed, money worship that pretends to follow the rites of Buddhism but violates some of the most basic precepts of Buddhism?
http://www.myp1t.com/blog/view/id_230/
Yeah, but who brought the slutty entertainers here?
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