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Kantha
Bopha Children's Hospitals... The
situation today
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- Since
1991, five fully operating hospitals and a maternity
ward for HIV-positive mothers have been built. The
Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals has been
progressively extended and modified to meet the most
urgent needs.
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- The annual budget
of the running costs is now 30 million USD. Kantha
Bopha's cost-healing ratio is the best worldwide
according to international evaluations. All medical
services are free of charge for every
child.
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- In
the
five hospitals, Kantha Bopha I, II, IV
and V in Phnom Penh and Jayavarman
VII in Siem Reap
Angkor,
in
2010
108,000 children were hospitalized (the average length
of hospitalisation was 5 days), 733,070 ill children
receive treatment in the outpatients department,
580,000 healthy children were vaccinated, 16,100
chirurgical operations were carried out. 91,136
pregnancy control and there were 14,171 birth in the
maternity ward, (designed to prevent mother-to-child
AIDS and TB transmission) and 3,000 families received
dayily health care education. The Kantha Bopha
Hospitals cover 85% to 90% of the country's sick
children.
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- All
medical services are free
of charge
since the families in Cambodia are simply too poor
to even make a small contribution towards these
medical costs. Without Kantha Bopha, 3,200 additional
children would die in Cambodia every
month.
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- At the moment we
are starting a further building in Siem Reap Angkor to
accomodate 300 more beds. There we will install a
brand new MRI scanner in order to continue our
research on TB in children. The MRI is also important
for better diagnosis and checking all the bone and
brain infections caused by TB, still so frequent in
the north of the country.
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- The latest
Videos
- Kantha
Bopha 4, Phnom Penh, January 17th,
2011
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 Kantha
Bopha IV, Phnom Penh
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- Every
child has a right to proper medication unhampered by
corruption
- All
of the 2,230 Cambodian staff at Kantha Bopha earn a
modest living on which they can get by (something
which is not possible on the usual salary of US$ 20
paid to local staff in Cambodia). By paying our staff
a wage they can live on, we seem to have found a way
of successfully fighting corruption, which is
otherwise widespread in Cambodia. To this day there
have been no thefts at the hospital, no cases of
medicine simply vanishing into thin air rather than
being administered to the patient in need. The
hospital operates 24 hours a day, and part of our
staff is working shifts. No money is taken under the
table from patientís families, and none of our
staff has to rely on a second job outside the hospital
in order to make a living. Medical care is freely
available to all children. 85% of all children needing
hospitalisation come from families who are too poor to
pay even the smallest fee. For these children Kantha
Bopha represents the only chance to get any medical
care at all. It is our belief that every child has a
right to proper medication. This, in turn, can only be
achieved with the assistance of modern and fully
functioning equipment, proper and effective medicine,
and sufficient disposable medical material, all of
which has very little indeed to do with luxury, and
even less with first-class medicine.
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- Entrance
Kantha Bopha 4 Hospital - 6.30
AM
- Patient
are queuing to be admited into the
hospital
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- Evaluation
of Kantha Bopha
- In
2000, an international team of experts was sent to
Cambodia by order of the Swiss Federal Agency for
Development and Cooperation (DEZA) to evaluate the
hospitals. The result was: Kantha Bopha was rated as a
prime example of a project for the Third World. After
a personal inspection of the three hospitals, the
director of DEZA fully acknowledged the final result
of the experts: "Care of patients, organisation and
hygiene are excellent. Kantha Bopha has an optimal
cost-benefit ratio.
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- The
necessary funds for the hospitals are therefore spent
appropriately. 95% of the funds are spent in Cambodia
- for medication, for the salaries of over 2,230
employees and for the maintenance and running costs of
the hospitals. Only 5 % of the total funds are
necessary to run the infrastructure of the foundation
in Switzerland. Thus, the people and children of
Cambodia fully profit from your donations.
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- Up to now we
recieved 2 million USD from the Cambodian government,
4 million USD from the Swiss Government and 22 million
USD per year from private donations . In the last 20
years, our foundation has spent a total of 400 million
USD.
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- Waiting
for consultations at Kantha Bopha 4 - 7.00
AM
- After
admission patients are waiting before going to the
consultation.
- Every
thing is free of charge
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- No
bureaucracy
- A
mere 5% of the hospital's funds are spent on
administrative tasks. In order to avoid the
traditional, cost-intensive hospital management and
the bureaucracy that goes with it, we have allocated
those tasks which can be dealt with locally, including
logistics, to those members of the medical staff who
have the necessary administrative skills. This means
that your money will be spent fully for the benefit of
the children in need and the Cambodian population.
What's more, we have managed further to reduce the
number of foreign staff to just two. Today, Kantha
Bopha is operating largely autonomously, both from a
professional and a technical viewpoint.
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- The
consultation.
- Patients
are then called by there numbers to meet the doctors.
- Severe
cases where already admited and doesn't need to
wait.
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