via Khmer NZ News Media
Jun 11, 2010
By Victoria Vaughan
MEDICS from Singapore recently travelled to Cambodia to help train local doctors and nurses in paediatric intensive care.
The mission was part of a capacity- building project by volunteer charity Singapore International Foundation (SIF) which started in 2008.
The four-year project comes under the SIF's Singapore Volunteers Overseas programme and is funded by Metro for Children charity. It supports the further training of medical staff at the hospital with tutorials and practical demonstrations by medics from Singapore.
Two doctors and two nurses from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) travelled to the capital, Phnom Penh, for two weeks in March to share their expertise with their Cambodian counterparts at the National Pediatric Hospital (NPH) of Cambodia.
The Singapore team, picked and led by Dr Loh Tsee Foong, senior consultant at KKH's intensive care unit, lectured on administration, admission criteria, the ventilation of babies and children, as well as the management of infection.
NPH's Dr Srour Yina said the training was helpful. 'Some of the things we are taught are new to us and will help us to further cut down the number of deaths. We're leaning to intubate and carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Before, we did these things but not so well.'
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