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One year old with club hands
Oun*, a one year-old girl from the Kratie province came to AHC to find help for bilateral club hands which she was born with. Her parents are farmers and they had to sell over US$25 of rice to raise...
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Cleft palate surgery success
While a baby is developing, parts of the skull, face, and head gradually grow together. Cleft lips and palates occur when some of these areas do not join fully before birth. This problem is often...
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Wild pig attacks boy
For Rathanak and his father the day started off fairly normally in Chikreang, at their home an hour down the road from Siem Reap. It is now the cool season in Cambodia and like many rural Cambodians...
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Most complex heart surgery seen at AHC
Last week, 11 year old Thyda* from Siem Reap, underwent the most complex heart surgery Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) has ever performed. We are delighted to report she is happy, healthy and at...
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AHC Welcomes Open Heart International
This week, AHC welcomed the Open Heart International (OHI) volunteer heart team here to perform fourteen lifesaving heart operations. The OHI team has been coming to AHC since 2006 and has performed...
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Making Mobility A Possibility: An Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Mission
Professor Aymeric Lim first visited AHC in June 2017 with his family. As a professor and orthopaedic surgeon, he was interested in the work carried out in AHC’s Surgical and Physiotherapy Units. Prof...
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Educating Cambodia’s First Paediatric Surgeons
The majority of children in Cambodia still cannot access safe and affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when they need it. This lack of even the most basic surgical services, such as bone setting,...
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Born with a cleft in Cambodia – Narith’s Story
Six months ago, in a rural Cambodian health centre, the mother of a newborn baby boy first laid eyes on her son, Narith. She was shocked to discover Narith looking up at her with a cleft lip and...
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Meet the mentors of Cambodia’s paediatric surgeons
Over the past decade, Dr Kevin Gandhi has volunteered at AHC every year to perform life-saving surgery on Cambodian children and build the capacity of AHC’s surgical unit. He is one of the many...
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