Eyesight Testing
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Just thought I'd share that with you.
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Dear Ot Mean Loi.
No , I was never aware , Your posts make me aware, Thank You. You, Sir are a Legend. Massive Respect.
I was wrong to think the Fred Hollows foundations has done any good. Scammers
No , I was never aware , Your posts make me aware, Thank You. You, Sir are a Legend. Massive Respect.
I was wrong to think the Fred Hollows foundations has done any good. Scammers
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Hello Jep,
World wide, the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHV) has done some outstanding work. This can not and is not denied by me.
But it has to be viewed in context and on a country by country basis. Cambodia is no exception.
The FHV spends its donor funds in many ways but does not, of itself, perform a single eye surgery, as it outsources this to others.
One needs to look at these matters not through rose tinted glasses but through the eyes of an informed eye practioner and an analytical accountant. Flying persons internationally to attend eye conference has a part to play but most donors to FHV expect their donations to go 100% to prevention of blindness activities and not in large measure to professional fund raisers before arriving at FHV.
Country specific programmes by FHV are to be looked at based on their outcomes within a specific country.
Just remember that Internationa NGOs provide a very nice life style to those they employ. Some International NGOs are far more boots on the ground and delivering results to those in need than others with a huge PR machine are.
OML.
World wide, the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHV) has done some outstanding work. This can not and is not denied by me.
But it has to be viewed in context and on a country by country basis. Cambodia is no exception.
The FHV spends its donor funds in many ways but does not, of itself, perform a single eye surgery, as it outsources this to others.
One needs to look at these matters not through rose tinted glasses but through the eyes of an informed eye practioner and an analytical accountant. Flying persons internationally to attend eye conference has a part to play but most donors to FHV expect their donations to go 100% to prevention of blindness activities and not in large measure to professional fund raisers before arriving at FHV.
Country specific programmes by FHV are to be looked at based on their outcomes within a specific country.
Just remember that Internationa NGOs provide a very nice life style to those they employ. Some International NGOs are far more boots on the ground and delivering results to those in need than others with a huge PR machine are.
OML.
Can anyone reccomend Do Seiya for eye problems? I have heard he is the no 1 opthalmologist in the ki ingdom?
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Hello Oldnews
I've known Cambodian ophthalmologist Dr DO Seyha for many years now. Not as a personal friend but as a medical professional working very hard indeed as the National Coordinator of the Cambodian National Programme of Eye Health (NPEH). In this capacity, he has a near impossible task but has achieved a lot for Cambodia, even within the constrains of a pathetically and totally inadequate national health budget, a Central Medical Stores perceived by many to be dysfunctional and bureaucratic and the "complex" medical-political environment in which he has to work. Dr Do Seyha can be a hard man to contact and to actually meet up with for an ophthalmic appointment.
But if you can get him go for him in Phnom Penh.
But should, for example, cataract surgery be required be sure to find out the cost of it in advance and if it is going do be done using PHACO (phacoemulsification - go and look it up) or SICS - Small Incision Cataract Surgery - please look this up too. There is a great difference in cost for these two ophthalmic surgical procedures, and for a number of reasons that I will not go in to here. BUT, regardless of which procedure is used a skilled ophthalmologist will obtain an identical visual acuity outcome post surgery.
You may even consider contacting and/or visiting the BOC - Battambang Ophthalmic Care - located at # 387 in Street # 3 at Battambang opposite the PIPHETTHEARAM Pagoda, as a paying patient there. As previously stated in this thread, The BOC in 2017 examined and treated 21,999 out patients presenting with a very wide assortment of eye problems and performed 4,383 cataract surgeries using the SICS method as well as 2,032 Pterygium surgeries as well as 75 other ophthalmic surgeries including some to remove dead and diseased eyeball and to fit a prosthetic "glass" eye.
BOC has PHACO equipment and the ophthalmologists trained in its use as well as the DONs - Diploma of Ophthalmic Nursing - operating theatre nurses also trained in its use and operation but as for so many things in developing countries and medical practices and procedures are no different - all such procedures must be the most cost effective and supportable and sustainable and, on cost alone, SICS is far cheaper than PHACO. Hence its wide spread use around the world in less affluent countries.
I hope the above is of interest and assistance.
OML
I've known Cambodian ophthalmologist Dr DO Seyha for many years now. Not as a personal friend but as a medical professional working very hard indeed as the National Coordinator of the Cambodian National Programme of Eye Health (NPEH). In this capacity, he has a near impossible task but has achieved a lot for Cambodia, even within the constrains of a pathetically and totally inadequate national health budget, a Central Medical Stores perceived by many to be dysfunctional and bureaucratic and the "complex" medical-political environment in which he has to work. Dr Do Seyha can be a hard man to contact and to actually meet up with for an ophthalmic appointment.
But if you can get him go for him in Phnom Penh.
But should, for example, cataract surgery be required be sure to find out the cost of it in advance and if it is going do be done using PHACO (phacoemulsification - go and look it up) or SICS - Small Incision Cataract Surgery - please look this up too. There is a great difference in cost for these two ophthalmic surgical procedures, and for a number of reasons that I will not go in to here. BUT, regardless of which procedure is used a skilled ophthalmologist will obtain an identical visual acuity outcome post surgery.
You may even consider contacting and/or visiting the BOC - Battambang Ophthalmic Care - located at # 387 in Street # 3 at Battambang opposite the PIPHETTHEARAM Pagoda, as a paying patient there. As previously stated in this thread, The BOC in 2017 examined and treated 21,999 out patients presenting with a very wide assortment of eye problems and performed 4,383 cataract surgeries using the SICS method as well as 2,032 Pterygium surgeries as well as 75 other ophthalmic surgeries including some to remove dead and diseased eyeball and to fit a prosthetic "glass" eye.
BOC has PHACO equipment and the ophthalmologists trained in its use as well as the DONs - Diploma of Ophthalmic Nursing - operating theatre nurses also trained in its use and operation but as for so many things in developing countries and medical practices and procedures are no different - all such procedures must be the most cost effective and supportable and sustainable and, on cost alone, SICS is far cheaper than PHACO. Hence its wide spread use around the world in less affluent countries.
I hope the above is of interest and assistance.
OML
Thanks for the excellent feedback on Dr Seiha. He has a new surgery near the Caltex garage on H5, Russey Keo. $15 consultation fee. Surgery times are 3 - 7:30 pm iirc, but better phone and check.
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I don't live in Cambodia (yet, hoping to move), but spent a few months there in the past year and decided to have an eyesight test since it had been years, and I saw an Opthalmologist, Dr. You Piseth, Botumvatey Eye Clinic. He was in Phnom Penh somewhere just South of the National Museum-ish. I stumbled across his office at random while sight seeing and have his info in my glasses case. Nicest guy in the world.
He was just back from an international trip to the U.S., checked me for everything, was really professional, and spoke good English. I highly recommend him since I got distance glasses that same day in under an hour despite being basically basically half-blind in one eye.
I don't know his exact address, but his email is [email protected] and his phone # is 017 55 42 40 / 0165 55 42 40
Totally trustworthy bloke.
He was just back from an international trip to the U.S., checked me for everything, was really professional, and spoke good English. I highly recommend him since I got distance glasses that same day in under an hour despite being basically basically half-blind in one eye.
I don't know his exact address, but his email is [email protected] and his phone # is 017 55 42 40 / 0165 55 42 40
Totally trustworthy bloke.
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