CAMBODIA
Two Rose Charities clinics in Cambodia provide free access to eye and surgical procedures to many people who have often spent years in need of treatment. Both need your donations to continue their work.
The Rose Charities Cambodia Eye Clinic
What We Do
The Rose Charities Cambodia Eye clinic provides free eye treatment for the poor of Cambodia including sight restoration surgery and prevention of blindness procedures, eye tests and glasses.
- The clinic treats approximately 1500 patients per month for eye diseases, eye infections and injuries
- Performs over 100 cataract and other sight restoring surgeries per month
- Provides screening for eye diseases such as glaucoma to 1500/month
- Provides eye care information to approx 4000/month
- Provides eye tests and glasses for approx 1000 people per month
What is Unique about this Clinic
The clinic is the largest free eye clinic in Cambodia and open to everyone. It is run by a skilled Cambodian team led by Dr. Hang Vra and is supported by visiting experts from New Zealand, Canada and Nepal. This enables the clinic to maintain high levels of expertise and service on a small budget. The total cost of the clinic is approx $3000/month US.
Why is the clinic needed
For many Cambodians, healthcare is largely unavailable. When a person is blind in Cambodia, the whole family suffers. A blind man cannot work, his wife has to limit her work to stay home and look after him. A child is taken from school to act as his guide. The loss of income puts the extended family into poverty. With a simple cataract surgery, the family is restored. With more funding, Rose Eye Clinic could easily double the number of surgeries a year as there is a long waiting list of blind people who could have their sight restored with simple surgery.
How you can help
We appreciate financial support for the clinic. The biggest area of need is for surgical materials. The clinic has three operating tables but the number of surgeries is limited due to the lack of funds to purchase artificial lenses and other surgical materials. A cataract operation costs approx $25 to perform. Donate $25 and Give the Gift of Sight to a Cambodian in Need.
Cambodia FIRST- Rose Rehabilitative Surgery Clinic
What We Do
The First-Rose Clinic undertakes free surgical procedures to improve quality of life and relieve suffering in Cambodia. The clinic performs approx 350 simple surgeries a year that include:
- cleft lip and palate repairs
- land-mine amputation remodeling for fitting artificial limbs
- burn relief including: acid burn victims
- correcting limb and other deformities
- conducts training for Cambodian physicians in new surgical techniques and procedures
- trains pre and post operative surgical staff
What is Unique about this clinic
The First-Rose Clinic is run near the Chea Chumnas Hospital in the suburbs of Phnom Phen. All treatments are free of charge. A skilled Cambodian team led by plastic surgeon Dr. Nous Sarom runs the clinic. The Clinic receives funding, technical support and training from Rose Charities, Operation Rainbow Canada and from the University of Hong Kong.
Why is the Clinic Needed
A child born with cleft palate in Canada has surgery within days of birth. In Cambodia many parents cannot afford the surgery and their baby faces a childhood of suffering. A baby with cleft palate can have difficulty nursing, malnutrition and recurring ear and throat infections. The facial deformity exposes the child to persecution and neglect. Many assume that he or she is mentally retarded.
The work of the clinic is dependant upon funds from individual donors. A cleft palate operation costs approx $150. (2009).
