September at AHC

  Sep 2008 Year-to-Date Total
Outpatient

9,533

69,805

578,541
Inpatient

199

1,828

24,365
Intensive Care Unit

55

508

3,780
Low Acuity Unit

91

697

7,491
Emergency

623

5,161

86,794
Surgery

119

920

9,028
Home Care

224

1,889

12,204
Dental Care

1,007

9,153

96,569
Eye Care

323

2,020

11,963
ARV Treatment
5
54
Lab Tests

4,318

29,176

285,865


The season for harvesting rice.


One Family's Story


Left: 8 year old Phall Vaon spent more than 5 weeks in AHC's ICU.
Right: Phall Vaon with his family about to go back home.


Phall Vaon is an eight year old boy, one of three children who live with their rice-farming family in Kampong Tom province, approximately 140kms from AHC. One day in August, Vaon was riding his bicycle to the market and fell, catching his leg in the spoke of the tire. His family took him to the local health center to have the wound looked at and cleaned. Three days later Vaon had a seizure. A neighbor told the family to take him to AHC.

Upon arrival at the hospital, Vaon was quickly diagnosed with tetanus and admitted to the ICU for treatment. He spent the next 5 weeks in the ICU, most of that time needing the assistance of a breathing machine.

His parents would like to say thank so much to the AHC Staff who saved their child’s life and they are very happy and proud that the hospital took care their child at no cost.

US Deputy Secretary of State Visits AHC


US Deputy Secretary of States tour AHC's ER and ICU

We were very proud to have Mr. John Negroponte, the US Deputy Secretary of State take time to tour AHC on his recent trip to Cambodia.

The US International Development Agency (USAID) has been supporting the HIV/Home Care program at the hospital for several years and in 2008 awarded AHC a grant pandemic preparedness planning.

Helping to Train Cambodian Nursing Students


Cambodian nursing students study at AHC.

In September AHC’ national Nursing Student training project continued. In collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Health, AHC provides two-week clinical placements for all final year nursing students from around the country (more than 350 this year). This month a total of 69 nursing students studied at AHC - 10 from Kampong Cham, 42 from Phnom Penh, and 17 from Battambang.

Fundraising in Singapore


Singapore fundraiser. From left to right: Sinketh Raneth, Mrs. Siream Shankar, Sinketh Arun, Mrs. Helen Tan, and Raneth and Aruns's mother.

“K’myang; Hearbeat of Cambodia” was held in Singapore on August 30th to aid of refurbishment of the ICU Unit at AHC. The event was organized by Children of Cambodia in partnership with Lions Club of Singapore Vanda. Children of Camboida is made up of a team of independent like minded Singaporean youths who are all under the age of 22.

The aim of the event was to appeal for long term sponsorship of AHC and as well as raise awareness of the situation at AHC. As of mid-September, the event had raised more than $115,000(USD)!

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Cambodian Holiday


Left: People make offerings at a local pagoda during Pchum Be n.
Right: A monk visits staff working during Pchum Ben.
Pchum Ben is the festival held for commemoration of the spirits of the dead. The festival does not just begin and end on one day. In fact, it lasts 15 days, each of which is called a day of Kan Ben.

A Ben is an offering. The word of Ben is derived from balls of rice to be offered to the souls of the dead. During the first 14 days, people take turns offering food to the monks of their local pagoda in the hope that their offering will reach the souls of their ancestors and friends by virtue of the monks’ sermons. Usually the population makes Num Onsam and Sweet Num korm (steamed cakes wrapped in banana leaves) to be taken to pagodas during the festival to share among participants. Num Onsam is a kind of cylindrical cake of glutinous rice wrapped around a mixture of pork, salt and other ingredients. Num Korm is shaped like a pyramid and made of rice-flour and filled with a coconut and palm sugar mixture.