Do You Have Problems Sourcing Medications in Cambodia?

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any leads on fenbendazole ?
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If you want it as a dewormer, similar is available as Benda 500 MEBENDAZOLE and is widely available.
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Praziquantel maybe a better alternative medicine, being used by the World Health Organisation for the primary treatment for human schistosomiasis, for which it is usually effective in a single dose. But unfortunately is not necessarily available in most pharmaceutical outlets, but on enquiry may become available (undercounter), expect to pay approximately $1 per tablet, and will need about 3 or more because dosage per milligramme goes on the person's body weight.
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Tried out Pharmacie de la Gare for some pretty standard resupplies of multi-vitamins, annual worm wotsit, paracetamol, ibuprofen, 1st aid kit, etc - managed to order the lot through their Telegram number & they delivered to my doorstep. Would be my first port of call again should I need anything more serious as the pharmacy itself can be very busy - like hospitals - probably the last place you want to go during a pandemic if you're actually quite fit & well!
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Spigzy wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:33 pm Tried out Pharmacie de la Gare for some pretty standard resupplies of multi-vitamins, annual worm wotsit, paracetamol, ibuprofen, 1st aid kit, etc - managed to order the lot through their Telegram number & they delivered to my doorstep. Would be my first port of call again should I need anything more serious as the pharmacy itself can be very busy - like hospitals - probably the last place you want to go during a pandemic if you're actually quite fit & well!
That is one of the good pharmacy's that stock European medication's, also another being
Pharmacy LAGACARE lower down Monavong.
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And this article by Ung Bun Ang from Khmer Intelligence dated 21st August 2021 is very relevant to this thread topic.

OML

HE and his elite minions must be one of the few in the world to profiteer from the Covid pandemic. His latest scheme for personal wealth enrichment is to outsource imports and supplies of much sought-after Western Covid vaccines to his medical minions who can then charge the public a fee.

The scheme creates a potential two-billion-dollar industry. If the UN and Aun Pornmoniroth are right that Covid has sent 17.4% of the population into poverty, then 2.9 million of them cannot presumably afford the private vaccination fee. Only the 14 million better-off can, without pawning their possessions. The vaccination is initially open only to those older than 17 years old, which means 9.0 million of the better-off. HE later increases the market size by lowering the vaccination age down to 12, which goes against the UN’s recommendation that vaccinations for all older adults be first completed; they say they are more at risk. Anyway, this adds 1.6 million better-off onto the demand; it is then expanded further with HE’s subsequent proclamation of a third jab for all. If the private vaccination fee is $100 per jab – maybe be higher for Pfizer’s – the industry income will surpass $2 billion for two jabs per person. And if HE decides the Covid vaccination needs a periodic boost, the industry will be forever lucrative.


It is surprising the scheme now makes imports of Western vaccines suddenly possible. Only last month, HE’s Covid spokeswoman Or Vandine is adamant the government cannot buy them; they want to. His medical business minions claim they can and will initially import Pfizer and Morderna.
One must have rocks in their head to deny the scheme’s centrepiece is corruption that HE has perfected to become an open secret. Like other lucrative businesses in the country, there must be grease payments to secure HE’s permit and blessings for the vaccine import and distribution. About ten private hospitals and clinics have already been blessed.

The permit holders must know they are going to make a killing in the healthcare system that usually has a high disregard for doctors’ Hippocratic Oath. Health Minister Mom Bun Heng says they have turned away Covid patients. They pick and choose which patients to treat to maximise their cashflows. They know there has been a widespread mistrust of the Chinese vaccines; many will pay “anything” for Western shots.

Thus, there will be a rush among the better-off for the Western vaccines. The elite minions have already asked HE for Astra Zeneca, after the first batch barely arrives. Though the man refuses it in public, which makes him look fair-minded and respectable, the minions must know how the backdoor works. They may think with a smirk that HE is just kidding himself when rejecting their courtesy overture.

The vaccination outsourcing scheme is hardly surprising, though; it is consistent with HE’s track records of enriching and protecting his power base, which has never been the 2.9 million destitute.



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That's all very interesting and it may or may not be an accurate depiction, OML, ^^^ but unfortunately because of the source i can give it zero credence at all.
Unfortunately, or not, that publication is just a propaganda cartoon chock-full of angry lies shouted out loud in the name of Righteousness.
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:49 am That's all very interesting and it may or may not be an accurate depiction, OML, ^^^ but unfortunately because of the source i can give it zero credence at all.
Unfortunately, or not, that publication is just a propaganda cartoon chock-full of angry lies shouted out loud in the name of Righteousness.
Just like the "Free" press and media in Cambodia SternAAlbifrons.

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Know a EU guy who has to go back home to stock up on his diabetes drugs, assuming because he gets them for free.
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And this article by Ung Bun Ang from Khmer Intelligence dated 21st August 2021 is very relevant to this thread topic.
A really rabid Long Beach cnrp propaganda site pushing hate for vietnam among other very biased views.
Odd how they despise foreigners while living in a foreign country themselves.
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