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Thursday 18 December 2014

HIV nightmare in Battambang


អ្នក​ភូមិ​នៅ​ស្រុក​សង្កែ នាំ​គ្នា​ធ្វើតេស្ត​ឈាម​រក​​មេរោគ​អេដស៍ (AIDS) 
នៅ​មណ្ឌល​សុខភាព រកា ក្នុង​ខេត្ត​បាត់ដំបង នៅ​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​១៤ ធ្នូ ២០១៤។ 

RFA/Hum Chamrouen


Wed, 17 December 2014 ppp
Mom Kunthear and Sarah Taguiam

More than 70 residents in Battambang’s Sangke district – including children as young as 3 – have tested positive for HIV after some of them received injections from an unlicensed doctor now on the run from authorities, villagers and officials said.

Following examinations by health officials starting on December 8, 72 out of 556 patients in the district tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, National AIDS Authority (NAA) secretary-general Dr Teng Kunthy said yesterday.

Forty-four women, 14 men, seven girls and seven boys have been affected. Their ages range from 3 to 82 years old.

“This is a very unusual situation,” Kunthy said. “For now, this is the number that we have, but there might be more.”


During interviews with the NAA, at least 30 villagers reported receiving injections from an unlicensed private doctor in the area, he added.

The shots were administered for a variety of maladies, from typhoid to fevers, which may be why infections spanned such a wide age group.

Seoum Chhorn, deputy chief of Roka commune, where the outbreak was centred, tested positive, as did his wife, 13-year-old granddaughter and 9-year-old grandson.

“I suspect we got this from the injection that a doctor in this commune did to the villagers who often went to get services from him,” Chhorn said, adding that several other families in the area have more than one member affected.

“This doctor is very famous in the commune, and every villager got treatment service from him, but we do not know what kind of medicine he injected in us.”

Chhorn, however, said the doctor, whom he identified as Yem Chren, fled the commune and escaped to Takeo province a week ago with his wife.

Since Sunday, health officials have been unsuccessfully trying to reach out to Chren through his family, Kunthy said.

“We tried to invite him to talk, but unfortunately, he’s gone now,” he said. “We just want to know exactly what happened, and we’ve asked the family and the commune to report if they hear anything.”

For now, the infected villagers are being monitored and have received antiretroviral drug treatments from the NAA.

Their blood samples will be sent to Phnom Penh for further testing, said Battambang provincial health department director Veoung Bunreth.

Further blood tests will be conducted around the district to check for more HIV-positive residents.

“I really pity my grandson and granddaughter so much, because they’re very young but they have this disease,” Chhorn said. “I want to appeal to the Ministry of Health and the government to intervene and help us immediately and take action against the doctor who treated and cheated the villagers when he is unskilled.”

Major crime officers from Battambang provincial police are now in control of the investigation, which is being assisted by the Child Protection Unit (CPU).

“The Child Protection Unit is heading to Battambang early morning [today] with a group of experts to liaise with major crime officers in the investigation of this alleged perpetrator that might have spread HIV and affected children within a small amount of communes,” CPU director of operations James McCabe said.

UNAIDS country director Marie-Odile Emond called the situation “highly unusual”.

“It’s very rare indeed to have such a high number of people affected in the same place, that’s why it’s really worth investigating what happened,” Emond said.

From 1991 to 1993, HIV/AIDS cases reached almost epidemic proportions in Cambodia.

Through random blood testing, health officials recorded a 150 per cent surge in the rate of incidence among voluntary patients, a figure that did not include sex workers.

But since the early 1990s, Cambodia has made significant strides in improving its national HIV/AIDS response.

Programs, increased government funding and a focus on educating communities about preventative measures have resulted in steep declines in HIV rates, according to NAA figures, to as low as 0.7 per cent in 2013 and 0.6 per cent this year.

Of the estimated 75,000 people living with HIV, most receive appropriate treatments that allow them to live healthy lives.

“Cambodia is doing a lot of good in combating HIV, so it’s really important that we clarify what happened to stop its spread quickly,” Emond said.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was that Doctor Yuon or Khmer? or Yuon Chmuos Khmer ?

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

Well, let me play doctor here.

I think the rate of HIV/AIDS infection is proportional to the ratio of Khmers in the villages were taking part of being migrant workers in Thailand.

You know that the Thai and Khmer cultures are inferior to the Chinese cultures. Thai and Khmer cultures treat sex and women as the way for men to show masculines.

And that's also why the rape rate in Cambodia is so high, the highest among the world. Khmer men are like a bunch of stupid mindless animals who would rape women like animals and spread even more HIV/AIDS.

The more Khmer learn from the Chinese or Vietnamese culture, the better.

Just read the way Sam Rainsy made comments about women. He taunted Mr. Hun Sen not to be weak as a woman before.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

-Drgunzet-@18 December 2014 4:50 pm:

You are using your shitty mindset to praise the stinky culture of Vietgooks?

Vietnamese culture, dance and songs are very ugly like poop or shit.

Anonymous said...

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Kmenhwatt said...

So does ah kwaq regime surround by yuon secret agents as well,more yuon agents in Cpp regime than any other regime in khmer's histories.

These yuon agents were clever than previous one,they all speaks Khmer and changes their name to khmer's name as well, Thong Sarath,Keo Sary,Ta Sok and don't we Khmer notice that almost all Khmer living in Phnom Penh today name" Sok" please asking yourself why!!!!???? Because ah kwaq was yuon's dog!

Anonymous said...

Drgunzet it was your mum that started it all.shows how much of a slut she is

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

Hmmm...come to think of it, someone is trying to create more problem for Mr. Hun Sen and has been infecting the poor villagers with HIV/AIDS.

I say, investigate and get down to the root problems. We know the opposition too well, they want to protests and then have some protesters to die from the wounds sustained from the Cambodian police. Then they turn around to cry foul play against Mr. Hun Sen.

In fact, there was a Khmer dude calling for thousand of deaths at the hand of the Cambodian police to get International attention.

Poor people always got caught in the evil politicians. That's really Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha's fault for continue to fight and destroying Cambodia's unity. They should have united with Mr. Hun Sen to build a better country instead trying to grab power.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

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