Cambodia - Preah Vihear
Project period: 1997
Area: Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia
Keywords: Pharmacology, hospital cost recovery system
Preah Vihear in 1997 was certainly one of the most outstanding parts of Cambodia. The province sadly held first place in a number fields at the time of the implementation of this project: it was the poorest and the most heavily mined, and there was also the continuing presence of armed groups of Khmer Rouge and bandits.
The project aimed to:
ensure that doctors at the provincial hospital were re-trained in pharmacology (mode of action of medicines once administered), and encouraged to consider the local representations of illness and disease and the meanings assigned to medicines by their patients
conduct a feasibility study, to assist in the establishment of an effective hospital cost-recovery system
The project arose from a consultancy conducted for the NGO Action Against Hunger. It was thus, in a tiny five-seater plane (the only way to reach the area at the time), that Nomad RSI officially took off: The Preah Vihear project was the first ever mission of the organisation…