Cambodian health care strikes again! (HIV Doctor Charged)

taabarang · Post by **taabarang** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:00 am

Here's a good reason to not have your blood tested in Battambang. Please go to
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/myst ... ang-74328/

Sadly, due to their incompetence two 4 year old twins were infected with HIV along with many others.

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:19 am

taabarang wrote:Here's a good reason to not have your blood tested in Battambang. Please go to
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/myst ... ang-74328/

Sadly, due to their incompetence two 4 year old twins were infected with HIV along with many others.

Unfortunately despite the introduction of disposable injection equipment, unsafe injection practices remain a major public health concern. Back in 2003 Yvan Hutin reported, ''that among the 16.7 thousand million injections administered each year in the 10 regions included in the study,6.7 thousand million (39.3%. Lower and upper estimates: 4.0 and 9.7 thousand million,respectively) were given with reused equipment. http://edoc.unibas.ch/138/1/DissB_6912.pdf

Unfortunately this is not just a problem of third world countries. In the USA ''More than 150,000 patients have been impacted by unsafe medical injections since 2001. Breakdowns in proper infection control practices often involve providers reusing needles, syringes or single-dose medication vials, all of which are meant for one patient and one procedure. These breaches can cause irreparable damage, exposing patients to blood borne illnesses such as hepatitis and HIV, and to life-threatening bacterial infections. Although safe injection practices represent very basic infection control measures, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely identifies and investigates outbreaks associated with deficient practices. http://www.cdc.gov/media/dpk/2012/dpk-u ... tions.html

taabarang · Post by **taabarang** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:24 pm

Here's an update from the Cambodia Herald (not at all my favorite newspaper)

Physician suspected of spreading HIV to patients escapes
PUBLISHED: 16-DEC-14 03:59PM
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PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- A physician who is suspected of causing spread of HIV to patients when he treated them has escaped, Roka commune chief Mrs. Sim Pov confirmed Tuesday.

Villagers in Battambong's Sangke district were concerned and went to have HIV tests on December 12 after some sick people at the area were tested, and were confirmIVed being infected with HIV.

To Tuesday, 429 people have already had their blood tested, and 72 of them have been infected with HIV"

LTO · Post by **LTO** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:53 pm

As has been noted elsewhere, the infection rate is crazy high, even for improperly sterilized equipment. As much as I would like to slam the Cambodian health care system over it, this may not have been due to accident or carelessness, but deliberate. Just speculating.

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:21 pm

This is a scary story. HIV is typically a virus you can easily avoid (even if you do drugs where blood is involved and have lots of sexual partners), so it's scary to think these people were not even in a high risk category at all and got infected.

I lived in a countryside village near Siem Reap and happened to live with a family whose dad was the village "doctor."

Seems everyone got injections (almost literally).

His equipment was shitty as it could get, but the ONE thing I noticed is that everyone got stuck with a new, freshly opened syringe.

I still wouldn't trust him with anything.

LTO · Post by **LTO** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:36 pm

As has been mentioned elsewhere, there is something very strange about this level of infection. The HIV infection rate for a single needle stick with HIV positive blood is less than a half of one percent (0.35%-0.45%). Somewhat higher for deep injury or visibly bloody needles. But the infection rate in this village is somewhere between 15%-20%. Something is really wrong here.

Sir_Quality_U_Feel · Post by **Sir_Quality_U_Feel** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:03 pm

I saw this story this morning on my break. Fucked up.

Sir_Quality_U_Feel · Post by **Sir_Quality_U_Feel** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:04 pm

LTO wrote:As has been mentioned elsewhere, there is something very strange about this level of infection. The HIV infection rate for a single needle stick with HIV positive blood is less than a half of one percent (0.35%-0.45%). Somewhat higher for deep injury or visibly bloody needles. But the infection rate in this village is somewhere between 15%-20%. Something is really wrong here.

Source?

YouTube · Post by **General Mackevili** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:28 pm

Yeah, I also speculate that it was deliberate.

Francis · Post by **Francis** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:39 pm

General Mackevili wrote:Yeah, I also speculate that it was deliberate.

Perhaps he was doing some medical research ? Cambodian "doctors" are learning by doing as you might know

and he just verified "YES" it can be spread through unsterilized needles.

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