Sisophon Hospital

Doctors Without Borders Holland/Belgium provided much needed quality medicines (till then they received low quality, often expired, and improper medicines from east-block countries) to the hospital in Sisophon, reconstructed some of the buildings and constructed a new maternity ward, as the old one was destroyed by mortars. The hygiene & sanitation of the buildings and compound were organised as these were non-existent, due to years of lack of budget and neglect.

Sisophon hospital was a group of ramshackle small buildings with dirt floors, most of them in wood. What struck me were a few drawings of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge during their short reign of terror, which were hanging at the out-patient department waiting area. Don't know who made them and put them up there, but they were not pleasant to look at while waiting for the medical personnel to attend to you. 

Patients in front of the TB Ward. One with an artificial leg.

A mother taking care of her child in Sisophon Hospital, 1991.

Siem Reap Hospital

Salle Réanimation

The office.

The Siem Reap Provincial Hospital was also in a derelict state and had the same lack of proper medicines, materials and equipment

Signing permission to burn disintegrated medicines in return for quality medicines provided by MSF

All kind of spoilt and expired medicines in a 'Pharmacy de Détail', an automatic rifle on the wall

A pile of spoilt and expired medicines (mainly donations from Eastern Europe) are burnt in the Siem Reap hospital compound, the TB Ward in the background

The wall tells it all...

Well-used ambulance of Puok District bringing patients to the Provincial Hospital on a daily basis

The famous ambulance of Puok District Hospital where the health services were very good, despite being provided from old, termite-infested wooden buildings