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EventsBon Phka Prak Event for Angkor Hospital Children goes online due to the pandemic
[Read In Khmer] Saving children’s lives by providing compassionate and quality medical care has been the core aim of Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) for more than 20 years. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, AHC is suffering increasing financial challenges as many fundraising activities…
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COVID-19, ICU, SepsisLife-saving treatment during lockdown: Sopheak’s story
AHC treats children from all 25 provinces in Cambodia, with many traveling hours at the best of times to receive the care they need. A sustained community transmission of COVID-19 in late February 2021 led Cambodia to a national outbreak. The national and local…
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COVID-19, OncologyLife-saving treatment during lockdown: Samnang’s story
AHC treats children from all 25 provinces in Cambodia, with many traveling hours at the best of times to receive the care they need. A sustained community transmission of COVID-19 in late February 2021 led Cambodia to a national outbreak. The national and local…
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COVID-19, OncologyLife-saving treatment during lockdown: Sreineang’s story
AHC treats children from all 25 provinces in Cambodia, with many traveling hours at the best of times to receive the care they need. A sustained community transmission of COVID-19 in late February 2021 led Cambodia to a national outbreak. The national and local…
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Chronic Care, Education, Out-patient, Respiratory, VolunteeringTraining 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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Community, COVID-19, Education, Health System Strengthening, Nursing, NutritionPreparing 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, NutritionKhmer 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, NutritionAHC 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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Community, COVID-19, In the Press, NutritionSoutheast 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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Community, COVID-19, NutritionRepairing Rural Nutrition during COVID-19
In a small rural village, near the famous Beng Mealea temple, the AHC Community Outreach Team are teaching local mothers how to cook nutritious food for their children, to help address the increase of malnutrition seen in Cambodian children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since…
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