- Kantha
Bopha 1992 - 2008
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- Since
1991, five hospitals and a maternity ward for HIV
positive mothers were built and are fully operating.
The Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals has been
progressively extended and modified to meet the most
urgent needs.
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- The annual budget
of the running costs is now 24 Million USD. Kantha
Bopha's relation costs/ healing rate is the best
worldwide proved by international evaluations. All
medical services are free of charge for every
childrens.
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- In
the
five hospitals, Kantha Bopha I, II, IV
and V in Phnom Penh and Jayavarman
VII in Siem Reap
Angkor,
each year 75'000 children are hospitalized (the
average length of hospitalisation is 5 days), 800'000
ill children receive treatment in the outpatients
department, 400'000 healthy children get vaccinated,
16'000 chirurgical operations are executed, 12'000
birth in the maternity (designed to prevent
mother-to-child AIDS and TB transmission) and daily
3'000 families receive health care
education.
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- All
medical services are free of charge since the families
in Cambodia are simply too poor to even make a small
contribution towards these medical costs. Without
Kantha Bopha, 3'200 additional children would die in
Cambodia every month.
At the moment we are
starting a further construction in Siem Reap Angkor
for 300 beds more. There we will install a brand new
modern MRI in order to go on the research for TB in
children. The MRI is important too for better
diagnosis and controlling of all the bone and brain
infections caused by TB, still so frequent in the
north of the country.
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- Every
child has a right to correct medication unhampered by
corruption
- All
of the 2'060 Cambodian staff at Kantha Bopha earn a
modest living on which they can get by (something
which is not possible on the usual salary of US$ 20
paid to local staff in Cambodia). By paying our staff
a living wage we seem to have found a way of
successfully fighting corruption which otherwise is
widespread in Cambodia. To this day there have been no
thefts at the hospital, no cases of medicine simply
vanishing into thin air rather than being administered
to the patient in need. The hospital operates 24 hours
a day, and part of our staff is working shifts. No
money is taken under the table from patientís
families, and none of our staff has to rely on a
second job outside the hospital in order to make a
living. Medical care is freely available to all
children. 85% of all children needing hospitalisation
come from families who are too poor to pay even the
smallest fee. For these children Kantha Bopha
represents the only chance to get any medical care at
all. It is our belief that every child has a right to
correct medication. This, in turn, can only be
achieved with the assistance of modern and fully
functioning equipment, proper and effective medicine,
and correct and sufficient medical one-way material,
all of which has very little indeed to do with luxury
and even less with first-class medicine.
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- No
bureaucracy
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mere 5% of the hospital's funds are spent on
administrative tasks. In order to avoid the
traditional, cost-intensive hospital management and
the bureaucracy going with it, we have allocated those
tasks which can be dealt with locally, including
logistics, to those members of the medical staff who
have the necessary administrative skills. This means
that your money will be spent fully for the benefit of
the children in need and the Cambodian population.
What's more, we have managed further to reduce the
number of foreign staff to just two. Today, Kantha
Bopha is operating largely autonomously, both from a
professional as well as a technical
viewpoint.
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- In
year 2000, an international team of experts was sent
to Cambodia by order of the Swiss Federal Agency for
Development and Cooperation (DEZA) to evaluate the
hospitals. The result was: Kantha Bopha was rated as a
prime example of a project for the Third World. After
a personal inspection of the three hospitals, the
director of DEZA fully acknowledged the final result
of the experts: "Care of patients, organization and
hygiene are excellent. Kantha Bopha has an optimal
expense-to-use relation.
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- Therefore,
the necessary funds for the hospitals are
appropriately spent. 95% of the funds are spent in
Cambodia - for medication, for the salaries of over
2'060 employees and for the maintenance and running
costs of the hospitals. Only 5 % of the total funds
are necessary to run the infrastructure of the
foundation in Switzerland. Thus, the people and
children of Cambodia are fully profiting from your
donation.
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- Up to now we get 2
Million USD by the Cambodian government, 2.5 Million
USD by the Swiss Government and 18 Million USD per
year by private donations . The last 15 years our
foundation has spent totally 250 Million
USD.
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- Every
single franc helps to prevent, to treat and to cure
illnesses.
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