Dear Friends,
We hope all is well with you and yours. We are now home and settled in, however our programs and projects continue. Before we left Cambodia we visited a hospital up in the northern part of Cambodia in Stung Treng Province. As many of you know KIDS funds a great preschool/kindergarten there as well as a computer lab for students. Stung Treng is one of the poorest provinces in the country. While we were there, K.I.D.S. manager Chan, asked us to visit the provincial hospital. We met the head of the hospital and saw the good work they were doing serving many people in the whole province.
We visited the pre and perinatal parts of the hospital and the head doctor told us about the problem they were having with oxygen; apparently they do not have enough oxygen and this is causing life threatening problems for the babies.
They also needed a permanent oxygen system for patients in the emergency ward.
We decided that this was a very important need and we had the resources to install the much needed oxygen and regulator system first to the emergency and the next step would be to extend it to the to the nursery they can share the ER system for now. Hopefully we can extend the permanent system to the nursery soon. Again Thanks to our donors the first stage of the system is running well and words cannot truly express how much the doctors, nurses and patients and parents appreciated us being able to help them and literally save lives.
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We travelled back to Siem Reap and had another visit at one of the other rural clinics we supported by putting in a clean drinking water system this past year. The head doctor/nurse thanked us and all our donors for bringing the gift of clean water to their small rural clinic. The emergency and inpatient ward had a metal roof and no ceiling which was a big problem in the hot season as the heat radiates down from the metal roof onto the patients. We hired our builder to install a ceiling under the roof to stop the transfer of heat making patient hospital stays much more comfortable.
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Because the clinic serves rural families they have to deliver quite a few babies throughout the year. The head nurse said that they really needed a delivery table with stirrups for the mothers in labour, as that would make the deliveries so much easier for the moms. KIDS was able to supply the delivery table as well.
We are always amazed and inspired by the people we meet who dedicate their lives to ease the lives of those in their villages and communities. Thank you for helping us help them to bring health and well-being to those in need.
Wishing You and Yours All the very best,
Until Next Time,
Adrianne and Rick