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Blog Archives: CambodiaJuly 23, 2012-
With support from the USAID MID-BCC project, after the TOT in Phnom Penh, the eight national trainers from the Communicable Disease Control Department of Ministry of Health, National Veterinary Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Cambodian Red Cross planned the cascade training. The main purpose of the plan was to train provincial and district agricultural staff, veterinarians, hospital health staff, private clinicians, pharmacists and pharmacy clerks, and village volunteers from four provinces – Kampong Speu, Kampot, Battambang, and Bantay Mencheay. More...
July 2, 2012-
“Avian influenza is still a threat to the health of Cambodians,” said HE Mam Bun Heng, Minister of Health in a joint press release on 28 May 2012 between the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). This joint statement declared the country’s 21st human death from the H5N1 virus. This case was the third person who died this year in Cambodia. More...
April 17, 2012 -
I traveled to Kampot, Svay Rieng, Kandal and Battambang the last week of March and first of April - just before New Years - to help organize and facilitate community forums on prevention related to bird flu (H5N1 virus). Because these communities have most recently had outbreaks of the virus or remained as gateways of poultry transportation from other countries, there was a lot of public interest. About 500 people joined the forum in each of the four border provinces, and local TV stations such as CTN, Bayon and TVK also covered the forums. More...
March 20, 2012 -
Pre-departure training took place from March 10 to 11, but I could join only on the 11th. It started 7:30 and finished at about 11:30. The contents of the training are Buddhism, prayer, disciplines of the walk, how to teach students, general guidelines. But what is interesting is that there was a 30-minute training on how to teach hand washing to students and children at about 10:00. There was a revision of how to wash hands properly for all the monks. Since I got some A4 posters from FHI 360 here, I gave one to each of the 40 monks. More... |
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