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Jul 15, 2011
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodian street children are selling blood outside hospitals because of a shortfall in the fluid available for transfusions, local media reported Friday.
A lack of official blood donations has led to a rise in freelance 'blood sellers,' the Cambodia Daily newspaper said.
'Older street children ... are selling blood sometimes, including drug users,' said Man Phally, programme coordinator for the local organization Mith Samlanh, which works with street children.
'They mostly hang around the hospitals, and if people need blood, they'll buy from them,' he was quoted as saying.
Man Phally told the newspaper that many Cambodians believed giving blood made them weak, meaning that the country's ill-equipped hospitals were constantly running short.
To compensate, beleaguered doctors encouraged patients' relatives to seek blood outside hospitals, where off-the-street donors can make an estimated 5 to 10 dollars per donation, a large amount in a country where the per-capita gross domestic product totalled 783 dollars in 2010, according to US State Department figures.
The report came as Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed Thursday to students to donate blood, noting that just three in 1,000 people were donors.
'Blood is worth more than money,' Hun Sen said. 'Money can be used to buy stuff, but blood is used to save human lives.'
Meuk Samean, deputy director of the Ministry of Health's National Blood Transfusion Centre, was quoted as saying the centre had just 500 bags of blood in reserve but used up around 100 per day.
'We need more blood donors so that we can ... eliminate blood selling,' she said.
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Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl, President Ms. Rattana Keo,
HUN SEN POWERS DRIVEN FROM FOREIGN DEBT...IF HE OWES ALLOT OBLIGATION UNDER HIS DICTATORSHIP THEN ALL THE CREDITORS WILL SUPPORT HIS POWERS IN CAMBODIA. HUM SACK POWERS IS NOT DRIVEN BY SUPPORT OF FOREIGN NATION THE REASON OF THIS RICHNESS FEELINGS FROM WEALTHY INVESTOR IS JUST A MOMENTUM OF THRUST TO GET THE FEEL OF PROPULSION. (ILLEGAL SMUGGLING RING)=KONG POUS
LIKE KONG PUOS SUPPORTERS WERE RUSSIANS AND ARE THEY RUSSIANS MAFIA?
KONG PUOS SERVE AS A PORT FOR ILLEGAL SMUGGLING OF COCAINE AND ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.....
INSTEAD OF PARKING IN PORT FOR AUTHORITY TO CHECK SHIPPING JUST DROP A FEW JET BOATS AND THERE YOU GO FULL WIDE .....ILLEGAL SMUGGLING OPERATIONS FROM THE VERY START!
A FISHY ONE! AT KONG PUOS!!!!
UMH DAK OR HUN SEN EITHER WAY JUST MORSE CODE THIS....
(VIETNAMESE LITERATURE)KHMER WORD OX----LEADING FISH RUNNER = PRIME MINISTER
SO HUM SACK IS A LEADING FISH RUNNER....
PRAHA MAE BAIT SAIT
or SLAYING DEMON LEADER
EITHER WAY :)
Wrong Mr. PM. In Cambodia, Money can use for everything including save and destroy life.
They should organize blood drive in around place where people coming out a lot to bring awareness of blood donation. In Sorya Mall would be a good spot.
DO THEY STOP STILLING THE DPNATION ??????
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