Ten Cambodian
children suffering from heart defects will be selected for free medical
treatment in South Korea this year,
visiting Korean officials announced yesterday.
Doctors from Se Chong hospital in Korea’s Phu Chorn city arrived in
Phnom Penh yesterday to examine 20 Cambodian children suffering from heart
disease and will select 10 to receive specialist treatment in South Korea.
The team was conducting examinations at New Hope for Orphans, in their
Boeung Tompun commune, Mean Chey district office.
Choi Young Mi, one of the specialists from Korea, told the Post
yesterday that the program’s ambition was simply to save young lives.
“There is no discrimination; whether they are rich or poor or whatever
their religion is, we only want to help,” she said.
Choi Young Mi added that this particular project is also carried out in
Thailand and Laos, but the need for charity was decreased in both those
countries since the improvement of their hospitals.
“We are paying attention to Cambodian children because in Cambodia
their medical technology is still at a certain level,” she said.
The medical care will be funded by private donations from Korean
citizens as part of a scheme that has helped 134 Cambodian children since 2002.
As well as medical expenses, the treatment package also includes
transfer flights and other expenses for parents to accompany their children.
Chun Chhaikry, 38, said that his six-year-old son Kry Manon had been
born with a hole in his heart and was
selected for treatment last November.
Chun Chhaikry said he used to send his son for medical check-ups in
Calmette hospital and for additional treatment in Vietnam, but fees were sky
high and the doctors would not guarantee his son’s life.
“For a month’s treatment in Korea, I would have spent over $100 on
passports and another $20,000 covering treatment, recommendation, food, and
plane tickets but thanks to this project, I didn’t pay anything at all,” Chun
Chhaikry said yesterday.
“I am very happy my son is now fully healthy, it is like he has died
and now has come back to us again,” he said.
Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post
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