Kammekor wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:42 pm

khmerhamster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:22 am
None of it?
Bit sensationalist Doc. And not totally correct.

15 years ago medical evacuation to Bangkok was common, but now many more treatments can be done here. Royal PP for one is a sister hospital of one of the big Bangkok hospitals and many of their doctors are on rotation from there.

You have a source?

I have the feeling they send their juniors to Royal Phnom Penh.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:39 pm

khmerhamster wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:22 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:45 am

johnny lightning wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:00 am It's not so much pills and checkups you need to worry about. Although for the pill part it's hard to find a place with a more liberal over the counter drug policy.

It's what happens and where you are sent after that unfortunate bone crushing moto crash. The ones where you are too fucked up to hop on a flight.

But... In PP, if your life depends on timely transportation to a hospital - in an ambulance with trained medical staff with proper equipment and drugs - and then an ICU unit waiting for your arrival- you are fucked because non of that exists here.

None of it?
Bit sensationalist Doc. And not totally correct.

15 years ago medical evacuation to Bangkok was common, but now many more treatments can be done here. Royal PP for one is a sister hospital of one of the big Bangkok hospitals and many of their doctors are on rotation from there.

Well, maybe they are better than I believe, but you still have to get one of their ambulances to come and get you. How do you do that when you are gasping for breath on the floor?

If you do manage to find the number and call the Royal PP, will they come out on a phone call, or do you have to be registered with them first? To have proved your financial metal? Be conscious and lucid to able to convince them you can pay?

The older I get the less living here seems a smart choice.

pissontheroof wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:42 pm
Believe me it’snot worth it.

HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:16 pm

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:31 pm its not the airport, BUT it is what does Cambodia have to offer (IMHO)

Say your siting in the US, UK, Germany, Poland and think, where should we go for a vacation, tired of hitting beaches in Spain and or touring Greece- Mexico, the Caribbean ( if ur american)

Most people who travel generally don't visit a country's landmark headlines, let alone in Cambodia, where only a fraction (800k) of the country's 4 million foreign tourists last year actually went to Angkor Wat. That means, most probably came for Naga World, or beaches in Kep, or maybe even a quick visit to Poipet, or that resort near Kampot. You'll find that it is the same for all these other countries, where people generally come for reasons other than archaeological tourism (millions of Americans travel to Mexico every year without ever visiting Teotihuacan or Patzcuaro, for example).

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:31 pm I bet 99 out of 100 would never in a million years think," lets go to Cambodia/SR for a holiday"<
I bet when Cambodia is mentioned , if it comes up at all ... its the place where they killed over 25% of their own people LESS than 47 year ago and alot of bombs were dropped there.... vacation there,,,, god no
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This is probably a more acute, pressing issue than what this country has to offer. The perception of Cambodia in the international mind (assuming they even know about Cambodia in the first place) is one of poverty, war (I *still* to this day have colleagues in the West ask me if I am at risk of being kidnapped from the "Khmer Rouge"), and despair, though at least it hasn't quite acquired the lecherous sex pest destination status as have Thailand and the Philippines, do to a strong reaction to initial reports.

It will take more time to repair Cambodia's reputation as the armed conflict really ended less than 25 years ago which is living memory of most people, though I think the genuine nature of Khmer people and the beauty (as well as uniqueness) of the country will continue to draw more adventurous visitors.

Sept. 2, 2022: The Cambodian Government made its plan to implement the ‘Free Angkor Pass’ to Angkor Wat for all 2-year residing foreigners in Cambodia in order to boost Siem Reap’s domestic tourism official today through the Angkor Enterprise announcement released yesterday, Sept. 1, 2022.