The Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope has recently received 85 items of advanced medical equipment. This assistance was provided through a Grant from the Office of American Schools and Hospitals abroad (USAID funded). The equipment includes cardiac ultra-sound equipment, C-Arm, Steam Sterilizer, Oxygen Concentrators, Suction pipes, Bedside Patient Monitors, ECG, Vital Sign Monitors, IV pumps, Pill Counters, Defibrillators etc.

The inauguration of the Emergency Building equipped with new medical equipment was conducted on 11 June 2009 in Kratie province (340 km via Snuol). The ceremony was presided over by H.E. Dr. MAM BUNHENG, Minister of Health in the presence of Mr. MITSUKURI Sathosi, First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan to the Kingdom of Cambodia, H.E. Thun Kry, Deputy Governor of Kratie Province and senior health officials.

With Maternal and Child Mortality as the top priority of the Ministry of Health under the Rectangular Strategy of the Royal Government of Cambodia (Phase II), it is necessary that health staff at all levels combine efforts with health development partners to bring about a substantial reduction in mortality rates quickly.

Presided over by H.E. Dr. Mam Bunheng, the Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia, two new health facility buildings within the Kampong Chhnang Referral Hospital consist of an Emergency Building and a HIV Building were inaugurated on 22 January 2009 in Kampong Chhnang province. The buildings were funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

The new O Am health center was inaugurated at on opening ceremony presided over by the Minister of Health H.E. Dr. Mam Bunheng on 9 December 2008 with MoH senior officials, donors, NGOs and local communities in attendance. This brings the number of health centers in the province up to 7 and the number of health posts at 17.

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