For quality healthcare, Hun Xen's Cambodia has to depend on Vietnam: Bravo!?!?

(L-R, front) Vietnamese former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, and Vietnamese Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Cho Ray-Phnom Penh Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on May 15

Work starts on Vietnam-Cambodia joint hospital

Sunday, May 16,2010
Saigon Giai Phong (Vietcong communist party)

Vietnam’s Saigon Medical Investment Joint Stock Company and Cambodia’s Sokimex Company started May 15 to construct an affiliate of Vietnam’s Cho Ray hospital in Phnom Penh City at a cost of US$42 million.

Tran Viet Hung, chairman of the Vietnamese company’s management board, said the Cho Ray-Phnom Penh multiclinic hospital covers an area of 60,000 square meters in Meanchev district, around ten kilometers from downtown Phnom Penh.

The hospital will have two five-story blocks with 500 beds and wards including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, cardiology, trauma and orthopedics, diagnostic tests, and emergency aid.

It is set to be completed in the next two years and create employment for more than 300 people.

At present, Vietnam receives about 250 patients from Cambodia every day, over half of them get treatment at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray hospital.

Therefore, the joint hospital will not only help Cambodian people save money and time that they would have had to spend on treatment abroad, but also contribute to improving Cambodia’s healthcare quality.

Cambodia, Vietnam cooperate to fight against drug trafficking [-Hun Xen begging Vietnamese help again?]

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Vietnam will strengthen bilateral cooperation to fight against drug trafficking crossing the two countries, an official said on Monday.

"Primer Minister Hun Sen held talks Monday with visiting Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong at Cambodian National Assembly," the premier's spokesman Ieng Sophalet told reporters after the meeting.

During the meeting, Ieng Sophalet said, "Hun Sen requested Vietnamese side to help building a drug rehabilitation center for Cambodian victims because Vietnamese side have more experience and abilities in dealing with the drug cases."

"The center also will play a key role for helping to provide the vocational training for those victims. Their families also have suffered from the drug cases," Ieng Sophalet said, adding that after they left the center, they will have appropriate jobs and skills in the future.

"Vietnamese thanked the bilateral cooperation and the cooperation between the police authorities from both sides to fight against and crack down the drug matters crossing border of the two countries in the past years," Ieng said.

Both sides have considered drug users as not criminals but they all are victims from drug problems, he said, adding that Vietnamese side also expressed a strong commitment to help reduce the drug cases in Cambodia.

Truong Vinh Trong, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the committee of combating Drug, Aids, and Prostitution, arrived here Monday and will meet with senior General Keo Kim Yan, chairman of the anti-drug authority of Cambodia on Tuesday for bilateral cooperation.