Cambodia unveils modern cancer center, new maternity facility

Abc123 · Post by **Abc123** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:01 am

Xinhua hot news.

Cambodia unveils modern cancer center, new maternity facility

Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-15 16:24:55|

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday inaugurated a national cancer center and a new maternity ward in the compound of the state-run Calmette Hospital here.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo HE said the 9-storey center, along with a new maternity facility, had been well-equipped with modern medical equipment.
"This is a new achievement in the country's health sector, and it will importantly contribute to improving the health of Cambodian people," he said.
Health Minister Mam Bunheng said the cancer center had been built in line with an international hospital standard and had been equipped with the latest medical equipment and devices including a 3.8-million-U.S.-dollar Linear Accelerator, nuclear medicine for diagnosis and treatment, bone marrow transplantation, and treatment by stem cell and chemical medicine.
He said the Linear Accelerator, which is the equipment most commonly used for external beam radiation treatments for patients with cancer, can serve between 700 and 1,000 cancer patients a year.
According to the minister, the cancer center consists of 53 beds and the new maternity ward has 85 beds.
Mam Bunheng said the building and its medical equipment totally cost 23 million U.S. dollars in which 17.4 million dollars was the Calmette Hospital's budget, and 3.2 million dollars and 2.4 million dollars were donated by a hospital in France and the International Atomic Energy Agency, respectively.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-0 ... 897016.htm

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:08 am

Cancer facility inaugurated
16 January 2018
Cambodia's National Cancer Center – a more than $23 million modern teaching facility – was inaugurated at Calmette Hospital yesterday, though the centre’s director and experts acknowledged that oncology services still fall well below the country’s demand.

During an interview yesterday, Dr Eav Sokha, director of the new centre, said there are only 26 oncologists for the more than 15 million people in the country. Of those, 20 will be working at the centre, with the other six working at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital’s Oncology Department – the only two public locations in the country providing such services.

The majority of the funding for the new centre came from the government, with contributions from France and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), among others. The centre will offer cutting-edge treatment, such as nuclear medicine, hematopoietic stem cell transplantations, radiation, chemotherapy and paediatric oncology. The centre will start seeing patients in the next two weeks.

The facility, which will also have its own quality of life unit for those suffering from terminal cancer, will be a teaching facility, with the first five oncology residents starting this summer, Sokha said. It will accept five residents every year...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... naugurated

that genius · Post by **that genius** » Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:14 pm

They will steal steal your shoes while you are in theatre

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:45 am

Child cancer ward opens in Cambodia
15 June 2018
Cambodia's economy is growing, but its medical services lag behind. In an effort to close the gap, a hospital run by a Japanese NGO is expanding treatment for childhood cancer.

Japan Heart opened the facility just outside the capital Phnom Penh in 2016, and has been offering free examinations and treatment. Now it has opened a new ward for children with cancer.

The ward has around 40 beds. Treatment will be provided by Japanese doctors specializing in childhood cancer.

Japan Heart founder Hideto Yoshioka said the NGO will focus on diseases the Cambodian government hasn't been able to take care of.
He said 80 to 90 percent of leukemia cases can be cured in Japan, but most patients don't survive in Cambodia. He says his group will help to narrow that gap.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180616_06/

Artful Dodger · Post by **Artful Dodger** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:13 am

given that only modern science and a lot of money can provide at best, care and comfort, but not cure for cancer .... how will this initiative in KoW achieve anything ?
?

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:03 am

Artful Dodger wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:13 am given that only modern science and a lot of money can provide at best, care and comfort, but not cure for cancer .... how will this initiative in KoW achieve anything ?
?

Some cancers can be cured or removed. Many can be held off for years. But you need the facilities and technology.
You also need the training to deal with that, which I suppose is part of the plan here. Got to start somewhere.

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:38 am

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:03 am
Artful Dodger wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:13 am given that only modern science and a lot of money can provide at best, care and comfort, but not cure for cancer .... how will this initiative in KoW achieve anything ?
?
Some cancers can be cured or removed. Many can be held off for years. But you need the facilities and technology.
You also need the training to deal with that, which I suppose is part of the plan here. Got to start somewhere.

Yep,,, the kid that throws his rubbish on the ground and has a untidy, unorganized bedroom will grow up to be a surgeon that drops the scalpel on the floor and leaves some instrument inside you before sewing you up.

Lets start with ALL preschool and 5 year olds education.

violet · Post by **violet** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:44 am

Duncan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:38 am
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:03 am
Artful Dodger wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:13 am given that only modern science and a lot of money can provide at best, care and comfort, but not cure for cancer .... how will this initiative in KoW achieve anything ?
?
Some cancers can be cured or removed. Many can be held off for years. But you need the facilities and technology.
You also need the training to deal with that, which I suppose is part of the plan here. Got to start somewhere.

Yep,,, the kid that throws his rubbish on the ground and has a untidy, unorganized bedroom will grow up to be a surgeon that drops the scalpel on the floor and leaves some instrument inside you before sewing you up.

Lets start with ALL preschool and 5 year olds education.

I have the pleasure of having regular contact with some med students here. Intelligent, witty, hard working, informed, and socially and evironmentally concerned.

that genius · Post by **that genius** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 6:59 am

Puthisastra?

Heng Heng Heng · Post by **Heng Heng Heng** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:13 am

Let's hope they're not cheating on their exams.

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