- Kantha
Bopha Academy for Pediatrics -
KBAP
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Siem
Reap Angkor, Kingdom of Cambodia
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- Purpose
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- The
experience gained from seventeen years of continuous
pediatric activity in Cambodia since 1992 and the
results yielded by the ever growing number of Kantha
Bopha pediatric facilities may be summarized as
follows:
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- Determination
in practicing correct medical care, i.e. with the
availability of proper diagnostic infrastructure and
therapeutic means and avoiding corruption within the
Kantha Bopha Hospitals under any circumstance have
consistently been and will remain the basic philosophy
of our activity. Upon this basis and paired with a
high degree of work motivation and discipline,
consistent medical success and human satisfaction
resulted in efficient health care and health
preservation of thousands and thousands of Cambodian
children. This also represents a substantial
contribution to the peace process in a country
suffering from the remains of three decades of
warfare, poverty, morbidity, epidemics and continuing
political instability.
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of medical efficiency and economical effectiveness,
both acknowleged by repeat official international
inspections, the Kantha Bopha Academy of Pediatrics
(KBAP) has recently been created. It aims at
promoting the positive experience and creative know
how to other parts of the world with similar
conditions and needs.
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- International
postgraduate course for young
physicians
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- The
KBAP offers a six month intensive postgraduate course
for young physicians of the ASEAN countries and Africa
as well from other parts of the world. The course will
include the following components:
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Review of the spectrum of regular pediatric
specialties given in weekly modules of five morning
and five afternoon sessions by eminent visiting
professors mainly from Swiss university children's
hospitals.
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Instruction of pediatric diseases characteristic of
the poor Cambodian population. These pathological
features are similar for all children living under
poor and tropical conditions. The instructions will be
scheduled daily and given by Cambodian professors
attending the Kantha Bopha Hospitals.
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Introduction into the philosophy of the Kantha Bopha
Project with its material and economical aspects and
requirements will be part of the program. Special
sessions will be arranged to demonstrate how to
conceive the infrastructure, logistics and management
of a pediatric facility in an underprivileged country,
including aspects of personal and equipment. This will
include discussion of hygiene, safety and salary. The
instruction will be given by Professors and
Technicians from the Kantha Bopha Hospitals.
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Observation of daily medical inpatient and outpatient
practice will be tutored by Cambodian Doctors
affiliated to the Kantha Bopha Hospitals. Course
participants in small groups will be able to take
turns in the various divisions and get a personal
experience of the medical activity.
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- E)
In addition, practical introduction to
Ultrasonography, CT and MRI may be
arranged.
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- Postgraduate
course
- The
KBAP opens its international postgraduate course
program for young physicians.
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- The
secound course will be held November 1-6, 2010 --->
announcement
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first course held in november 2009 had the following
scientific program. More...
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- Core
facts and figures of the KBAP
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Kantha Bopha Project of Cambodia consists actually of
five Children's Hospitals in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap
Angkor with an attached Maternity in Siem Reap Angkor.
Eighty five percent of all sick children in Cambodia
receive their treatment free of charge through these
facilities! The project was started with the Kantha
Bopha I Hospital Phnom Penh in 1992. By 2008 the
following average figures per day result from the
medical activity:
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- 300
admissions of severely sick children,
- 60
surgical procedures,
- 3000
outpatients,
- 1500
vaccinations,
- 50
deliveries in the maternity of Siem Reap Angkor,
attached to the Jayavarman VII (Kantha Bopha III)
Hospital aimed at preventing the HI Virus transmission
from mother to child.
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- The
activity of Kantha Bopha I Hospital was initiated in
1992 by 16 European expatriates and 68 Cambodians. In
2008, the personal working in all Kantha Bopha
Hospitals consists of 2100 Cambodians (including 180
doctors) with only two permanent European expatriates.
Since 1992/93, the mortality rate has been reduced
from 5.4% to 0.75% in 2008.
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- The
Conference and Teaching Center in Siem Reap Angkor
includes 4 class rooms of 60 seats, two larger
theaters of 200 and 650 seats, and a continuously
updated medical library. This Center will be the heart
of the KBAP.
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cost efficiency rate of the Kantha Bopha Hospitals has
been shown repeatedly to be worldwide leading among
100 internationally scored pediatric projects in 40
developing countries. The integrated maternity into
the pediatric Hospitals is key to the highly
successful neonatology work.
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to "Western standards" of diagnostic and therapeutic
means, including state-of-the-art imaging departments
and laboratories, the Kantha Bopha Hospitals are a
unique enterprise functioning in a underprivileged
country with a high concentration and combination of
tropical diseases (Dengue, Malaria, Typhus, JEV) and
Tuberculosis and including HIV/AIDS.
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- Key
issue is the correct infrastructure and
management
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- Key
to proper and cost effective function of the Kantha
Bopha Hospitals as well as to their justice oriented
health care is: The correct infrastructure with total
absence of corruption combined with the availability
of such medical care free of charge for every child.
With the actual annual running costs of 25 million US$
for all the Kantha Bopha Hospitals including the Siem
Reap Angkor maternity, the reached cost effectiveness
has been shown to be unprecedented. Cambodia is a
country of 14 million, 45% of which are children.
Eighty five percent of Cambodia's sick children
receive their treatment through the Kantha Bopha
Hospitals.
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- Unfortunately,
large amounts of money are spent throughout the
continents without proper impact. According to
experts' estimates, the annual budget of WHO would
allow the operation of 150 Kantha Bopha type
facilities with the capacity to treat the children of
a population of 2.1 billion people. The question
raised by these experts is: Where would the doctors
come from? The KBAP intends to inspire and educate
young doctors who might thus be motivated and prepared
to take up a more demanding humanitarian
task.
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- The
Kantha Bopha Philosophy and Political
Statement
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Kantha Bopha philosophy and political stand are
summarized in The Angkor Declaration of September
2003, first signed by His Majesty the King of Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk, secondly signed by Dr. Cornelio
Sommaruga, former President of the ICRC, finally
signed by many thousands of Cambodian
citizens.
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- The
Angkor Declaration-->
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- Kantha
Bopha Academa - Version
to print (pdf)
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