covid
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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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COVID-19, Health System Strengthening, Neonatal, Policy & Guidelines, Saving Babies' Lives, SepsisSetting 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, 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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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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