Khmer News in Cambodia

The Health Sector Support Project (HSSP), which is supported financially by the World Bank, has been implemented by the Ministry of Health for seven years. The HSSP was scaled up to HSSP II in the context of better harmonization among development partners and alignment to government policies, strategies and system. The World Bank Cambodia monthly [...]

Challenge: Cambodia’s health system has improved over the past decade resulting in significant reduction of child mortality, reduction of mortality and morbidity due to communicable diseases such as HIV/ AIDS, TB and malaria, vaccine preventable diseases, and improvement in fertility rate and life expectancy.
Despite these improvements, Cambodia still faces challenges. There has been no improvement [...]

One-legged Nurse Pan Hean is a proud man. So are all the staff of Chakrey Health Center, which Pan Hean heads. The new health center opened three years ago with 10 patients a day coming for consultation. Now 30 patients come every day. Sitting in his consultation room, Hean smiles and says: “This health center [...]