By Victoria Vaughan
Straits Times (Singapore)
MEDICS from Singapore recently travelled to Cambodia to help train local doctors and nurses in paediatric intensive care.
The mission was part of a capacity- building project by volunteer charity Singapore International Foundation (SIF) which started in 2008.
The four-year project comes under the SIF's Singapore Volunteers Overseas programme and is funded by Metro for Children charity. It supports the further training of medical staff at the hospital with tutorials and practical demonstrations by medics from Singapore.
Two doctors and two nurses from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) travelled to the capital, Phnom Penh, for two weeks in March to share their expertise with their Cambodian counterparts at the National Pediatric Hospital (NPH) of Cambodia.
The Singapore team, picked and led by Dr Loh Tsee Foong, senior consultant at KKH's intensive care unit, lectured on administration, admission criteria, the ventilation of babies and children, as well as the management of infection.
NPH's Dr Srour Yina said the training was helpful. 'Some of the things we are taught are new to us and will help us to further cut down the number of deaths. We're leaning to intubate and carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Before, we did these things but not so well.'
The mission was part of a capacity- building project by volunteer charity Singapore International Foundation (SIF) which started in 2008.
The four-year project comes under the SIF's Singapore Volunteers Overseas programme and is funded by Metro for Children charity. It supports the further training of medical staff at the hospital with tutorials and practical demonstrations by medics from Singapore.
Two doctors and two nurses from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) travelled to the capital, Phnom Penh, for two weeks in March to share their expertise with their Cambodian counterparts at the National Pediatric Hospital (NPH) of Cambodia.
The Singapore team, picked and led by Dr Loh Tsee Foong, senior consultant at KKH's intensive care unit, lectured on administration, admission criteria, the ventilation of babies and children, as well as the management of infection.
NPH's Dr Srour Yina said the training was helpful. 'Some of the things we are taught are new to us and will help us to further cut down the number of deaths. We're leaning to intubate and carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Before, we did these things but not so well.'
A lot of Khmers people travel to Vietnam to see a doctors there these days? i urge cambodian doctors must do something to regain people trust..!!
ReplyDeleteDoctros and Nurses in(cambodia- Srok Khmer) their attitude like King or Queen of the earth!!!!!!!! that's why?
ReplyDeletei know, it's the bad attitude that cambodia must reforms even in the healthcare field, not just in gov't. there ought to be law to govern professionals like doctors and nurses, etc from using bad attitude to mistreat their patients in cambodia. you know, in america, healthcare professionals are well-trained to upheld their oath of "do no harm" and to "save life", that's their professional oath of duty. i think cambodia needs a law like that to protect the consumers or patients' rights as well. maybe we need help to upheld or enforce or train professionals about this law. yes, attitude has a lot to do with it, really! this is where law comes in to protect all. cambodia still has a lot of works to do for reforms in all fields as well, not just in gov't, you know! until that happened, there's always a trust issue there.
ReplyDeletePost 10:11pm absolutely right!!
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ReplyDeleteThe attitude you are talking about is not limited to the medical community, but rather widespread in our khmer society. It is derived from the notion of hierarchies (thanak-vannak) in all walks of life in Cambodia.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
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Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
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Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered 10 Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Why don't just go to Yeaknam for 6 months and you become engineer, doctor or even PhD..
ReplyDeleteVietnam doctors are very intelligent, very knowlegeable! khmers doctor have attitude and look down on their own kind....
ReplyDelete8:44am, this is the difference between youn brain and khmer brain? wake up people, this is not the dark ages anymore,ok! learn from everybody because knowledge knows no boundary, ok! don't be stupid and outdated in your thoughts, ok!
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