Written by DAP NEWS -- Saturday, 03 October 2009
(Post by CAAI News Media)
After a Cambodian woman died of A/H1N1 at the Sokhaphirum Private Clinic, the first swine flu fatality in Cambodia, the Ministry of Health (MoH) invited all private clinics to attend a meeting at MoH on Friday to give recommendations related to the spread of A/H1N1, according to a statement. The dead woman’s family accused the clinic of negligence.
MoH Secretary of State Eng Hourt invited private clinics to learn more about the new disease. He told all Phnom Penh clinics to first report suspected cases to the state hospitals.
Family of the victim, Eng Heng, 41, told DAP News Cambodia that Sokhaphirum Clinic, located in Phnom Penh’s Makara 7 district and run by Dr. Srour Yina, referred the woman very late to Calemette hospital, where she tested positive for A/H1N1. A DAP News Cambodia reporter went to the above clinic, but a staff told him the boss was absent. A clinic staff member said that the MoH “called me to join a meeting I did not pay or not I still not clear about this.”
Eng Heng’s family again appealed for the MoH to investigate.
NIMA ASGARI representative of World Health Organization (WHO) for Cambodia said that “A/H1N1´s symptoms include fever, coughing.”
There have been 88 cases of A/H1N1 confirmed in Cambodia in the six provinces of Siem Reap, Takeo, Battambang, Kandal, Kampong Speu and Phnom Penh.
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