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.
