Pov Panhapich Needs Your Help!

Pov Panhapich Needs Your Help!

Because of a severe fund shortage for the healthcare and medical treatment for Singer Pov Panhapich in Thailand, and the inability of her family to come to her help, we are calling on the generosity of all Cambodian people in the world to help provide for Pov Panhapich.

In the name of Ms. Pov Panhapich and her family, we are thanking you in advance and wish you with the 5 Buddhist blessings.

Check or Money Order donations can be sent to:

Cambodian Culture & Art Association
2517 East Anaheim Street
Long Beach, CA 90804

Names of the donors will be published by “Angkor Borei” newspaper.

Click here to learn more about Singer Pov Panhapich’s shooting in the street of Phnom Penh.

Cambodia seeks help to fight dengue outbreak

PHNOM PENH, June 28 (Reuters) - Impoverished Cambodia is appealing for international help to fight a major outbreak of dengue fever, which has killed more children early in this year's wet season than in all of the last.

"Dengue is hitting almost all provinces nationwide. We cannot contain the virus with our limited resources," Ngan Chanta, head of the country's anti-dengue programme, said on Thursday.

"We need foreign help" to counter an outbreak that has killed 138 of the 12,700 children the mosquito-borne virus has infected this year, he said.

The virus, which generally strikes during the June-September wet season and in Cambodia appears to hit mostly children, killed 116 of the 12,300 who caught it last year.

Cambodia, still recovering from decades of civil war and the "Killing Fields" of the Khmer Rouge, needed $500,000 swiftly to buy larvicides for use on mosquito breeding grounds, Ngan Chanta said.

Lam Eng Hour said the four Swiss-funded hospitals of which he is deputy director were being swamped by dengue sufferers the facilities treat free.

"We just cannot manage if more and more patients come," he said.

The hospitals had appealed for $7 million from donors, he said, to fight a disease that has reached epidemic proportions in wealthy Singapore as well as striking hard in neighbouring Thailand and in Malaysia.

Lam Eng Hour said many children died of dengue because the hospitals were short of blood for transfusions, and he praised foreign tourists who had responded to appeals by donating blood.

"They are being more than just tourists, they are saving our childrens' lives," he said.

Cambodia's public health system remains rudimentary, with much of its funding coming from foreign aid.

According to the World Bank, annual government spending on health is about $3 per person.