I sincerely hope this does not mean things will change:
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/g ... -303948857
Gov’t eyes Kantha Bopha hospital handover
Fri, 20 May 2016
Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro
The government has set up a working group to prepare for a takeover of the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals, though the Ministry of Health maintains it will leave current management arrangements in place.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Economy and Finance established the group to study the management of the hospital, according to documents outlining the formation and tasks for the team.
Among the group’s duties is preparing a mechanism of management and operation of the hospitals for whenever the government takes over in order to turn them into “government hospitals”, documents say.
“As I understand, it is to prepare for a handover in the future,” said Dr Sok Srun, director of the department of hospital services, who is on the group. “But we don’t have an intention to manage the hospital. Instead, we wish Dr Beat Richner to stay there as long as he can to help us.”
Dr Denis Laurent, Kantha Bopha’s deputy director, said Richner – the Swiss-born founder of the hospitals – is 69 years old and wants to find solutions for the hospitals’ sustainability in the event of his absence, adding that services would still be free of charge whenever the transition happens.
Is this good news?
Good news - the MOH has to take responsibility some time for ensuring sustainability and integration of the facility into the health coverage plan. i hope it goes smoothly. Certainly there is a lot more capacity now than when I was working with the MoH 20 years ago.
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But it was always the intention from the outset and founding of these hospitals that they would eventually be transferred across to the Cambodian Ministry of Health so none of this should come as a surprise to any moderately well informed poster to this or other fora.
Excellent as these hospitals are, being based on a Swiss model, they are not sustainable in Cambodia given the deplorable national health budget.
The far more appropriate and sustainable hospital model for Cambodia is that of the Angkor Hospital for Children - AHC -at Siem Reap and with a number of outposts as well.
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Excellent as these hospitals are, being based on a Swiss model, they are not sustainable in Cambodia given the deplorable national health budget.
The far more appropriate and sustainable hospital model for Cambodia is that of the Angkor Hospital for Children - AHC -at Siem Reap and with a number of outposts as well.
OML
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