Group completes 58 free surgeries in five days

Parents bring their children to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital for eye exams. - PPP

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Over a five day period from Jan 21 to 25, a team of surgeons from the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital – working in collaboration with general surgeons from the US – examined 86 patients and operated on 58 patients with ailments such as intestinal diseases, hemorrhoids, anal fistulas, tumours and others.

Dr Mok Theavy, deputy director of Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, said on January 26 that the hospital in collaboration with US NGO organisation Surgeons for Cambodia provided consultation and treatment for serious diseases for people by using laparoscopic examinations and providing treatment for the diseases they were able to.