Public health

Recent Ha Noi Medical University Hospital (HMUH) research has raised alarms over the rise of low libidos in young men. The research, carried out on 769 male patients aging between 19 and 74 coming to the hospital for different diseases, found out that 13 per cent ...

Authorities are being urged to better distribute the healthcare workforce with an emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Experts at a National Health Commission seminar said on Monday that there might be an oversupply of doctors within the next 10 years, and called for a ...

Ministry of Interior officials confirmed on April 3 that new guidelines for foreign intended parents hoping to leave Cambodia with babies born to surrogate mothers will be released later this week, prompting cautious relief among parents and those involved in the industry. Chou Bun Eng, permanent ...

Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. But in reality, many people still face difficulties receiving the benefits because of ineffectiveness in policy ...

Thousands of patients in Thailand are now on a life-or-death waiting list, praying every day with their family members for an organ transplant. Despite increasingly advanced medical technology, their vital surgeries cannot take place without an act of kindness from fellow humans. “One organ donor can ...

Health officials need accurate reports on community health, including figures relating to nutrition, if the problem of malnutrition is to be adequately addressed, the health minister has said. For several years, health officials working to tackle nutrition in some provinces have been reporting successes that ...

The Japanese government agreed on March 30 to provide Cambodia with about $140 million in grant aid and concessional loans for infrastructure, healthcare, water supply and flood protection. The deal, signed by Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Horinouchi Hidehisa, was witnessed by Prime ...

The National Social Security Fund will pay more to hospitals for health services following a new agreement reached between the fund and participating hospitals yesterday. The money will be paid in a lump sum, with some hospitals receiving as much as 130,000 kip to allocate ...

More than 150 people were sent to the hospital after eating tainted noodles at a ceremony in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong district on Sunday. A district police officer who declined to be named told Khmer Times on March 27 that 152 people, both young and old, ...

Cambodia has permanently banned the sale and export of human breast milk a week after suspending exports by an American company that was harvesting it from impoverished mothers. In a letter to the Ministry of Health on March 28, Cambodia’s governing Council of Ministers officially ...