HIV/AIDS MOBILE CLINIC
Helping Cambodian Patients with HIV/AIDS
In 2007, SHCH started to operate a HIV/AIDS mobile clinic. The mobile clinic was conceived in order to deliver primary health care services and health education for the prevention of HIV & TB infections to slums of Phnom Penh, and areas where high HIV rates are thought to be present.
Operating five days a week and targeting slums outside of Phnom Penh, more than 1,000 people were treated from February 2008 - April 2008.
The mobile clinic's primary goal is to help Cambodians understand the prevention of HIV infection by supplementing educational programs, in addition to providing mobile medical care. SHCH’s commitment to community-based HIV prevention education puts SHCH at the forefront of efforts to address this much-needed, yet under-recognized dimension of service.
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WAITING ROOM: MEET THE CAMBODIANS IN OUR LOBBY WAITING AND LEARN WHY THEY CAME TO SHCH
Question: How did you hear about SHCH and why did you choose to come here over the other hospitals in town?
Sokjip Nu, 34, Kandal (25 km from Phnom Penh), “I know about your hospital from my neighbors. I am here because I lost all of my property to borrow money to cure my disease. But, I wasn’t healed. I alsoknew about the hospital reputation. Here I can get free medicine and I don’t have to borrow more money to pay for medicine.”
Paula Treuy, 59, Kampong Cham (180 km from Phnom Penh) – “I heard about this hospital from my relatives. I came here for the free medicine. I can get free medicine and a free health check-up here.”
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FOCUS ON SHCH STAFF
SAM-OUEN MOM – SURGICAL WARD SUPERVISING NURSE
Training the next generation of medical staff is at the heart of SHCH’s mission. Sam-Ouen Mom is the supervising training nurse in the surgical ward. She is responsible to train and educate the nurses in her unit. Her story is below:
Born and educated before the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, Sam-Oeun is one of few educated Cambodian nurses who survived the Khmer Rouge years. For nearly four years, Sam-Oeun had to keep quiet about the formal education she received before the Khmer Rouge simply to survive.
Telling of the Khmer Rouge days, Sam-Ouen said she walked for 180 kilometers from Phnom Penh to the countryside and on this walk she saw educated people shackled together and held captive by Khmer Rouge soldiers. She knew very early on disclosing her educational achievements were never to be done during this time.
For nearly four years, Sam-Ouen endured forced labor under the Khmer Rouge......
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BACK TO HEALTH: A CAMBODIAN FARMER'S JOURNEY
If you were a rural Cambodian, where would you turn in times of a medical emergency?
Having no access to specialty doctors, or even doctors who can set a broken bone, is a real issue to millions of Cambodians who live in rural provinces. With few trained doctors being available in the country, and the bulk of whom live in Phnom Penh, many rural provinces simply do not have specialty doctors. When medical emergencies arise in rural provinces, access to adequate medical care can be difficult, if not impossible. Gunthia Hok’s story is a case of this.
Gunthia Hok is a 30 year old farmer and mother of three from Kampong Speu, a province 50 kilometers outside of Phnom Penh. Gunthia said of the medical situation in her province, “In our province, there are no specialized doctors to do operations or surgeries. This is a very big problem for our province. If we break a bone or have a serious illness, like a stroke or heart attack, there is no local doctor trained enough to give us immediate care.”
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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!