Monthly Happenings at SHCH
Stay up-to-date with the exciting recent events at SHCH!
March:
The Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE has supporters around the world. Some donate money to help the day-to-day running of the hospital. Some help us secure medicine and supplies. Many doctors and nurses come and contribute their expertise. A number of former staff return time and time again to help the staff grow in their knowledge and skills.
We recently received this story from some of our supporters in Japan. It’s about an old woman who has not donated a lot of money nor taught us some medical knowledge. But she is giving her heart.
Ninety-three year-old Ume lives in Japan.
Ume had a dream when she was young. She wanted to become a doctor.
This dream started when she experienced the Big War (World War 2).
Continue reading this story and our Spring news...
Statistics: See January 2008 statistics and statistics on SHCH's 10 years of service to the Cambodian poor. In January 2008 alone, there were over 8,000 outpatient visits.
FOCUS ON SHCH STAFF
Born Thok - Library Supervisor
Housing Cambodia’s largest medical library, SHCH's library has been at the forefront of medical education for Cambodia's health professionals. SHCH’s medical library supervisor, Born Thok, has been with SHCH since the hospital’s inception.
Working together with Gail Cogan, a librarian in Boston, Massachusetts, Born has overseen the growth of the medical library that started out with just 50 books and no library to house them in 1997. Today, ten years later, the library has 5 computers with access to the internet for the staff to do research, international medical journals, and over 3,000 medical books.
Continue reading about Born Thok and other SHCH staff.....
Two Tales of Broken Bones and Bamboo Sticks
If you had a broken leg, would you simply wrap bamboo sticks around it?
Fifteen-year old Meu Puthy helps out his family by going into the mountains in his home province of Kampong Speu daily to log wood, earning $10 a week. One day, while he was hard at work, a heavy tree fell and landed on Meu’s right leg, breaking his femur bone. After fellow loggers sawed the tree and removed it from his leg, Meu was transported by ox cart back down to his village.
Meu’s village has no hospital and the only doctors available are traditional healers. In fact, no one in Meu’s family had ever been inside a hospital before. In the village, the traditional healers wrapped Meu’s leg in bamboo sticks and told him......
Continuum of Care
Helping Cambodian Patients with HIV/AIDS
SHCH's Continuum of Care services and associated programs, in and around Phnom Penh, offer long-range services for patients and families in the context of medical, financial, and social support.
Continuum of Care was started with the idea in mind to specialize in HIV families and communities, by offering numerous programs and services to our patients and families, including financial and school support for widows and their children, job training for women who have lost spouses to AIDS, and family placement for orphans whose parents have died from AIDS.
Our Continuum of Care program has two main facets: CRC, an outpatient clinic for HIV patients and CCF, a hospice caring for acutely ill AIDS patients in the last phase of their illness. Learn more about CRC and CCF by visiting their individual webpages!