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Health Screening
Our Commitment to Healthcare
With the high costs of healthcare and lack of access to healthcare providers in Poipet, many villagers are not able to obtain treatment for even the most basic ailments such as coughs and the common cold. Project Battambang seeks to bring healthcare to people through mass village screenings and door-to-door screenings.
During our main trip in December 2023, we conducted mass health clinics across three different locations - Dong Aranh, Love Without Boundaries Kindergarten, Mother Of Peace Kindergarten. Over the span of 5 days, we screened a total of 764 villagers and students.
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Our multidisciplinary team addressed a variety of health problems presented by the villagers, ranging from the common cold to hair lice, tuberculosis, suspected cases of HIV and chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. For most acute cases, our doctors were able to deliver treatment and prescribe medication from our pharmacy. Teaching sessions were also conducted on the preparation days prior to the commencement of our clinics to further enhance the volunteers’ clinical skills.
SCREENING STATISTICS 2023
5
DAYS
3
LOCATIONS
764
villagers
screened
58
referrals
Programmes
In our attempts to reconnect the villagers back to their healthcare system such that they would be better equipped to manage chronic conditions, villagers diagnosed with conditions such as chronic hypertension were referred to the Poipet Referral Hospital, where they were registered and added into the system for future follow-up consultations and receive subsidised medication.
Villagers presenting more complex problems were also referred to Poipet Referral Hospital for dental and medical services, as they were better equipped with the facilities to address the issues presented.
Project Battambang successfully referred 58 villagers to receive the medical attention they required. These referrals included procedures such as cataract removal surgery, correction of pterygium as well as referrals for suspected bone cancer and tuberculosis.
referrals
In 2023, Project Battambang restarted referrals for myopia, due to the increasing number of cases. We found a qualified optician in Poipet to assess our patients diagnosed with refractive errors before prescribing appropriate spectacles to correct these errors accordingly at discounted prices.
EYE CLINICS
In the upcoming May and December trip, Screening will seek to carry out concurrent screenings targeted at specific systems that are more prevalent, such as musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal. We believe that this move will increase our efficiency and efficacy, allowing us to screen more people and improve healthcare outcomes for the villagers.
Furthermore, we hope to better support local villages by working with village pharmacies to provide villagers with a long-term source of medications for their chronic conditions.
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