By A.L.G.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
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A new medical biology lab was inaugurated inside the Khmero-Soviet Hospital. This lab will allow the hospital to curtail its needs for private lab services.
The Khmero-Soviet Hospital now includes a new medical biology lab which was inaugurated on Friday 30 January by representatives from the ministry of Health and the [French] Mérieux Foundation.
“There are medical biology labs in all hospitals in Phnom Penh, but very few of them are functioning under optimal condition,” François-Xavier Babin, an official for the Mérieux Foundation Asia, indicated.
“In this new lab, we will be able to conduct bacteria growth that will allow us to determine the sensitivity of bacteria to antibiotics,” he added.
These research activities should allow a more efficient prevention of nosocomial infections which were favored in antiquated Cambodian hospitals.
Three months of preparation and three additional months of setting it up were needed to build this new lab. Its construction and engineering work was performed by the Cambodian DBD company. The construction cost amounts to 115,000-euro ($150,000), to this amount, additional expenses were required for the equipment and training.
“Due to their internal lack, hospitals generally sent their tests to private labs which are not well suited to specific hospital needs,” the Mérieux Foundation indicated in a communiqué.
Regarding HIV screening, the new lab should allow a “better diagnostic of opportunistic infections, and to a lesser extent, parasitic infections,” François-Xavier Babin added.
The Mérieux Foundation already financed the construction of a medical biology lab in Takeo in 2006-2007, and it will also finance one such lab at a national pediatric hospital next year.
When it was inaugurated in 1960 with the financial help of the USSR, the Khmero-Soviet Hospital was the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia. Equipped with 500 beds and employing a staff of 520, the hospital still remains the most important one in Phnom Penh.
The Khmero-Soviet Hospital now includes a new medical biology lab which was inaugurated on Friday 30 January by representatives from the ministry of Health and the [French] Mérieux Foundation.
“There are medical biology labs in all hospitals in Phnom Penh, but very few of them are functioning under optimal condition,” François-Xavier Babin, an official for the Mérieux Foundation Asia, indicated.
“In this new lab, we will be able to conduct bacteria growth that will allow us to determine the sensitivity of bacteria to antibiotics,” he added.
These research activities should allow a more efficient prevention of nosocomial infections which were favored in antiquated Cambodian hospitals.
Three months of preparation and three additional months of setting it up were needed to build this new lab. Its construction and engineering work was performed by the Cambodian DBD company. The construction cost amounts to 115,000-euro ($150,000), to this amount, additional expenses were required for the equipment and training.
“Due to their internal lack, hospitals generally sent their tests to private labs which are not well suited to specific hospital needs,” the Mérieux Foundation indicated in a communiqué.
Regarding HIV screening, the new lab should allow a “better diagnostic of opportunistic infections, and to a lesser extent, parasitic infections,” François-Xavier Babin added.
The Mérieux Foundation already financed the construction of a medical biology lab in Takeo in 2006-2007, and it will also finance one such lab at a national pediatric hospital next year.
When it was inaugurated in 1960 with the financial help of the USSR, the Khmero-Soviet Hospital was the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia. Equipped with 500 beds and employing a staff of 520, the hospital still remains the most important one in Phnom Penh.
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