Articles
- AHC News, COVID-19
AHC’s Response: COVID-19 in Cambodia
Learn how child health in Cambodia may be impacted by COVID-19, the financial outlook, and how AHC is adapting..
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- Education, Health System Strengthening, Social Work, Volunteering
Tackling child trauma through art and play
Deborah Byrne is a child art psychotherapist from Ireland who has been volunteering with the AHC social work unit for the past six months. She has been teaching the team techniques using art and play therapy to enhance a child’s sense of well-being and…
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- Chronic Care, Education, Out-patient, Respiratory, Volunteering
Training the next generation of Cambodian paediatric specialists
Dr Um Khemuoy is training to become Cambodia’s next generation of paediatric specialists, so children requiring respiratory treatment can access the care they need. In Cambodia, there are only two doctors for every 10,000 people (WHO, 2014). Only a fraction of these trained doctors…
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- AHC News, Press
ឥទ្ធិពលនៃឆ្នាំ២០២០ មិនអាចបញ្ឈប់បេសកកម្មរបស់មន្ទីរពេទ្យកុមារអង្គរ ក្នុងការធ្វើឱ្យប្រសើរឡើងនូវប្រព័ន្ធថែទាំសុខភាពរបស់ខ្លួនឡើយ
ឆ្នាំ២០២០ គឺជាពេលវេលាដ៏លំបាកមួយក្នុងប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រ ដោយសារតែការរីករាលដាលនៃជំងឺកូវីដ១៩។ ទោះបីប្រទេសកម្ពុជាមិនបានទទួលរងឥទ្ធិពលធ្ងន់ធ្ងរពីជំងឺដ៏កាចសាហាវនេះ ក៏ប៉ុន្តែមានក្រុមហ៊ុនអាជីវកម្ម និងអង្គភាពជាច្រើន រួមទាំងមន្ទីរពេទ្យកុមារអង្គរ នៅតែមានការព្រួយបារម្ភអំពីផលប៉ះពាល់បន្ទាប់ពីមានការឆ្លងរាលដាលនៃជំងឺកូវីដ១៩នេះ មកលើសុខុមាលភាពកុមារកម្ពុជា។
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- COVID-19, Health System Strengthening, Neonatal, Policy & Guidelines, Saving Babies' Lives, Sepsis
Setting the standard of newborn care
The AHC neonatal model sets the standard of newborn care in Cambodia, supporting the development and implementation of neonatal care throughout the Cambodian health system, challenging the notion that quality neonatal care is expensive, complicated and unattainable in a low-resource setting. Since the establishment…
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- Community, COVID-19, Education, Health System Strengthening, Nursing, Nutrition
Preparing for 2021: Malnutrition in the Community
Malnutrition does not discriminate. Across communities, its incidence is also increasing. In AHC’s hospital wards, the nutrition team face the result of poor and uneducated families not feeding their children correctly. Throughout the villages surrounding Siem Reap, AHC’s community outreach team see the same.…
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- COVID-19, In the Press, Nutrition
Khmer Times: Smart Axiata partners with AHC
“The looming malnourishment crisis can be treated and prevented and AHC’s work is of utmost importance in this regard,” Thomas Hundt, Chief Executive Officer of Smart Axiata, told Khmer Times. “Taking the necessary steps and measures will go a long way in preventing this…
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- Community, COVID-19, In the Press, Nutrition
AHC and Smart Axiata partner to combat the COVID-19 child nutrition crisis
Siem Reap, Cambodia –Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) and Smart Axiata, Cambodia’s leading mobile telecommunications operator have partnered in the fight against the emerging child nutrition crisis in Cambodia. The Smart Axiata 1 Million USD COVID-19 Relief Fund enables AHC to treat children who…
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- Antibiotic Stewardship, COMRU, Laboratory, Sepsis
Melioidosis: The Emerging Tropical Disease
Ary was only two years old when she was admitted to AHC with a serious tropical disease infection, burkholderia pseudomallei melioidosis. It took three months – and the collaboration of multiple hospital units working together daily – to successfully treat this emerging and often…
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- Community, COVID-19, In the Press, Nutrition
Southeast Asia Globe: The fight against child malnutrition
Since the pandemic began, children in rural Cambodia have been hardest hit by the knock-on effects of the virus, with a worrying increase in malnutrition that is threatening to reverse the Kingdom’s progress made in child health over the last decade. Read more.
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- Education, Health System Strengthening, Surgery, Volunteering
Meet the mentors of Cambodia’s paediatric surgeons
Over the past decade, Dr Kevin Gandhi has volunteered at AHC every year to perform life-saving surgery on Cambodian children and build the capacity of AHC’s surgical unit. He is one of the many volunteers helping develop AHC’s paediatric subspecialty care and education. Dr…
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