Quarterly Review 2 – 2025
(April, May, June 2025)
Primary Prevention: During the 2nd quarter of 2025, Peer Educators carried out health promotion by raising awareness of diabetes and high blood pressure and informed general population of the availability of screening and services for these conditions. This was done in 6 villages (4233 adults reached) in Prey Kabas OD (Takeo Province) and in 16 villages (3 communes, 10,235 adults reached) in Boribo OD (Kampong Chhnang province). These adults all received a free urine glucose strip to encourage self-testing.
Ministry of Health NCD Program: We are trying to make a smooth transition from direct sales of medicines to patients (inside the public facilities) into direct sales to Hospitals and Health Centers, based on what they did not receive from central medical store. Our existing standardised partnership contracts with the Hospitals and HC’s have to be adapted to this new set-up. Sofar no Hospital has signed the new draft agreement with us.
Our program at Chhlong Referral Hospital in Kratie province was suspended by the Provincial Health Department in mid April 2025. At the last medical consultation session 156 of the registered patients received their last supply of prescription medication. Since then, according to our counterparts there, just about 30 of those patients continue to use the Hospital services. We heard that others have been trying to find other places. The local counterparts confirmed that 8 items are no longer being provided at the Hospital (Simvastatin, Losartan, Enalapril, Thiamin Vit B1, the 3 types of 10ml Insulin vials, Insulin syringes 30G). This must be at least part of why 2/3 of patients abandoned treatment at their local public referral hospital (CPA2). The local peer educator manager has voiced the unhappiness of the patients during the Pro TWG at Kratie province. The network NGO HACC asked MoPoTsyo to contact patients to join the Cambodian NCD Alliance meeting. On 19 June our program officer and 7 patients from OD KChhlong and Kampong Tralach participated in HACC 95th membership meeting at Sunway Hotel organized by HACC/Cambodian NCD Alliance. The meeting objectives were:
- Share the results of STEP Survey 2023(non-communicable disease risk factors and conditions in Cambodia)
- Share draft NCD Advocacy Strategic Plan 2025-2028 and collect more inputs.
During this meeting patients raised their difficulties after MoPoTsyo program was suspended: lack of medicines (No insulins, no insulin syringes, no Losartan…) when they used the referral hospital’s own services. The RH doctor wrote prescriptions for them to buy what is missing from private pharmacy but that cost them much more than they used to spend with MoPoTsyo’s RDF. It shows how challenging it is for MoH to gain trust of NCD patients over time when the medicine supply chain is still not working well.
The head of our training unit (nurse) attended the official IDF workshop on “Building diabetic care expertise in Cambodia” organized for Health care professionals in Phnom Penh.
Visit Prof James LoGerfo: Right after Khmer New Year Prof LoGerfo, retired from University of Washington visited Cambodia, Chamkarleu Hospital, where a mental health component is added into the diabetes consultations.
Event: On 23 June 2025: 2 staff and 6 patient members joined the “Event Dance for Health “with organized by HACC/Cambodian NCD Alliance. This event aimed to raise awareness on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases through physical activity.
Employee representative: To comply with Ministry of Labor regulations we must have Employee Representatives. On 11 June we held elections at our office and 2 were selected.
Financial Audit: auditor KMPG completed on time the audit our financial statements over financial year 2024 (whole NGO both donor funds and social enterprise) and made some useful recommendations that we can begin to apply. We must submit the external audit reports to the national authority ACAR.