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PHNOM PENH (UCAN) -- Kol Chansamphose, a 21-year-old Buddhist woman, has come again from her province to the Jesuit Service Cambodia office in Phnom Penh.
She is sitting on a bench in the basement, waiting her turn to enter the consultation room of the makeshift ear clinic run by the Catholic NGO. The place is simple, with a cupboard for documents, another for medicine and some posters on health education. Chansamphose told UCA News she has visited the clinic several times for ear examinations, traveling 50 kilometers from her home in Kompong Spoue province, west of the capital. She finds the doctors here warm and welcoming.
"I don't pay anything for my ear checkups," she revealed, adding that the clinic gives her free medicine and reimburses her transportation costs.
The young woman has suffered from ear problems since the age of 10, as a result of complications from measles. She was brought to a public hospital at the time, but doctors said they could not help her, she recalls. This upset her, but she felt better after coming to the Jesuit clinic. Here, Chansamphose explained, doctors said they could help her, and she is scheduled for ear surgery in October.
Ouch Titratha, 20, from Takoe province, 80 kilometers south of Phnom Penh, also considers the clinic a boon for poor people.
According to its manager, Kit Sorphany, the clinic was started in 1998 to "help all ear patients," regardless of race, religion or economic background.
The clinic provides free examinations and medicine, arranges surgery and helps people with their transportation costs, she said, but added that patients are free to donate money to the clinic. It now has branch clinics in Battambang and Siem Reap, neighboring provinces in northwestern Cambodia.
Sorphany told UCA News that the clinics have regular doctors who treat patients but do not perform surgery. Five salaried local doctors work at the Phnom Penh clinic, one in Battambang and two in Siem Reap.
Surgery is performed by doctors from Australia, France and the Netherlands who come to Cambodia five times a year. These doctors visit for five days at a time and perform operations at all three branches.
Khourn Som El, a nurse at the clinic in Phnom Penh, told UCA News that if a case is too serious for them to treat, they send the person to a public or private hospital. He added that he finds it very meaningful to help the poor in his job, even though he has to deal with problems when patients do not follow doctors' prescriptions or do not turn up for appointments.
According to Sorphany, the Phnom Penh clinic's doctors also treat villagers in Bongteay Meanchey, Kampong Speu and Takoe provinces. She said the clinic gets some support from Christians in Germany.
The clinic is open 8 a.m.-4.30 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday.
According to the 2005 Jesuit Service Cambodia annual report, the three ear clinics treated 5,297 patients and organized four weeks of surgery for 102 of those patients during the year.
She is sitting on a bench in the basement, waiting her turn to enter the consultation room of the makeshift ear clinic run by the Catholic NGO. The place is simple, with a cupboard for documents, another for medicine and some posters on health education. Chansamphose told UCA News she has visited the clinic several times for ear examinations, traveling 50 kilometers from her home in Kompong Spoue province, west of the capital. She finds the doctors here warm and welcoming.
"I don't pay anything for my ear checkups," she revealed, adding that the clinic gives her free medicine and reimburses her transportation costs.
The young woman has suffered from ear problems since the age of 10, as a result of complications from measles. She was brought to a public hospital at the time, but doctors said they could not help her, she recalls. This upset her, but she felt better after coming to the Jesuit clinic. Here, Chansamphose explained, doctors said they could help her, and she is scheduled for ear surgery in October.
Ouch Titratha, 20, from Takoe province, 80 kilometers south of Phnom Penh, also considers the clinic a boon for poor people.
According to its manager, Kit Sorphany, the clinic was started in 1998 to "help all ear patients," regardless of race, religion or economic background.
The clinic provides free examinations and medicine, arranges surgery and helps people with their transportation costs, she said, but added that patients are free to donate money to the clinic. It now has branch clinics in Battambang and Siem Reap, neighboring provinces in northwestern Cambodia.
Sorphany told UCA News that the clinics have regular doctors who treat patients but do not perform surgery. Five salaried local doctors work at the Phnom Penh clinic, one in Battambang and two in Siem Reap.
Surgery is performed by doctors from Australia, France and the Netherlands who come to Cambodia five times a year. These doctors visit for five days at a time and perform operations at all three branches.
Khourn Som El, a nurse at the clinic in Phnom Penh, told UCA News that if a case is too serious for them to treat, they send the person to a public or private hospital. He added that he finds it very meaningful to help the poor in his job, even though he has to deal with problems when patients do not follow doctors' prescriptions or do not turn up for appointments.
According to Sorphany, the Phnom Penh clinic's doctors also treat villagers in Bongteay Meanchey, Kampong Speu and Takoe provinces. She said the clinic gets some support from Christians in Germany.
The clinic is open 8 a.m.-4.30 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday.
According to the 2005 Jesuit Service Cambodia annual report, the three ear clinics treated 5,297 patients and organized four weeks of surgery for 102 of those patients during the year.
3 comments:
This project remind me when I was in Nang Mak Moon and various refugee camps until Dang Rek SITE II before I came to USA. I used to work in different Outpatient Clinics and Hospitals in those camps, provided free care to fellow-refugees. Jesuit Refugees Services was in the SITE II camp as well. I remembered few weeks before I left to US, I told some of my patients that when they returned back to Cambodia, they might not have had the same free care as they got in the camp. I'm glad some NGOs continue to provide this basis health care.
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ON...........2006 AT..., THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS BEEN CONVENED AND HAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO REMOVE NORODOM SIHAMONI AS A KING OF CAMBODIA, ABOLISHING THE MONARCHY AND DECLARING CAMBODIA A REPUBLIC WITH YUON XEN, WHO IS CURRENTLY PRIME MINISTER, AS THE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE WITH GRANTED EMERGENCY POWERS..
From Government spokesman and
Information Minister KHIEU KANHARITH
KHMER PEOPLE IS IN WANT OF
A KHMER DEGAULLE
TO THE LIBERATION OF OUR COUNTRY
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Declaration of general de Gaulle published in France in the clandestine papers on, June 23rd 1942.
The last veils behind which the enemy and traitors plotted against France have now been torn down. The issue at stake in this war is plain to all Frenchmen : independence or slavery. It is the sacred duty of every man to contribute all he can to the liberation of our country through the invader's defeat. There can be no solution and no future for us except through victory.
Yet this gigantic ordeal has shown the nation that the danger threatening its existence does not come solely from outside, and that victory without courageous and thorough internal reconstruction would not be real victory.
One moral, social, political and economic régime, paralysed by corruption, has abdicated in defeat. Another, arising from a criminal capitulation, is drunk with personal power. Both are condemned by the French people who, even as they unite for victory, are massing for revolution.
In spite of the fetters and gags of slavery, a thousand tokens, coming from the very heart of the nation, allow us to glimpse her desires and hopes. In the name of France, we proclaim these, and affirm the war aims of the French people.
We want our country to recover everything that belongs to her. For us, the end of the war means the restoration of complete integrity to France, the Empire and the national heritage ; it means that the nation must once again exercise absolute sovereignty over its own destiny. Any usurpation, whether from inside or beyond our frontiers, must be destroyed and swept away. As we mean to make France once again sole mistress of her fate, we shall likewise see to it that the French people alone are masters of their destiny. At the same time as they are freed from enemy oppression, all their internal liberties must be restored. Once the enemy is driven from our land, all French men and women will elect a National Assembly, which, in the full exercise of its sovereignty, will determine the country's future.
We seek retribution for every blow which has been, or is now, aimed at the rights, interests and honour of the French nation, and intend all such dangers to be eliminated. This means, first and foremost, that enemy leaders violating the laws of war to the detriment of French persons and property must be punished, together with the traitors who co-operate with them. Next, it means that the totalitarian system which incited, armed and hurled our enemies against us, as well as the systematic coalition of private interests which, in France, has worked against the interests of the nation, must simultaneously and for all time be overthrown.
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