Jon Morgan as the director of the Lake Clinic, Cambodia spoke at a breakfast meeting on the project. Currently they have one boat doing mobile doctor services to floating villages in the south east area of the lake. These villages are extremely poor. They are fishermen who sell their catch to the wholesalers for the market. There are 7 villages in all. The medical boat goes out for 4 days at a time with a staff of 5. As the boat is small, there is no privacy at all and the volunteer doctors are working with Khamer only speaking help making it a very isolated feeling together with the privacy issues. As such, Jon assures volunteers are well aware of the situation and must come from the Angkor Childrens Hospital where he was chief administrator previously.
The boat goes to a common warf where the patients come to them and wait their turn for treatment. As the people are treated, everyone else gathers around to watch – quite a challenge but very necessary to bring healthcare to these people.
The Lake Clinic Cambodia is a non government organization which relies on donations. For more detail and information visit their web site http://www.lakeclinic.org/ Money for their first boat came from donations in Noreay who are now developing a second boat which is much larger and will have separate rooms for operations, dental, examinations plus have small private rooms for staff. With the facilities on board the boat, patients can be separated easily for examinations and medical procedures in private.
Operating costs for this boat mobile clinic runs about $13,000. per month in total. Cost for the larger boat are estimated to be $12,000. per month do to built in efficiencies.
By Lee Sneddon
The boat goes to a common warf where the patients come to them and wait their turn for treatment. As the people are treated, everyone else gathers around to watch – quite a challenge but very necessary to bring healthcare to these people.
The Lake Clinic Cambodia is a non government organization which relies on donations. For more detail and information visit their web site http://www.lakeclinic.org/ Money for their first boat came from donations in Noreay who are now developing a second boat which is much larger and will have separate rooms for operations, dental, examinations plus have small private rooms for staff. With the facilities on board the boat, patients can be separated easily for examinations and medical procedures in private.
Operating costs for this boat mobile clinic runs about $13,000. per month in total. Cost for the larger boat are estimated to be $12,000. per month do to built in efficiencies.
By Lee Sneddon
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