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.
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.
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Patients in front of the TB Ward. One with an artificial leg.
The office
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Salle Réanimation
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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
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