Fondation Kantha Bopha
Switzerland
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Since 1991, five hospitals and a maternity ward for HIV positive mothers were built and are fully operating. The Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals has been progressively extended and modified to meet the most urgent needs. All medical services are free of charge since the families in Cambodia are simply too poor to even make a small contribution towards these medical costs. Without Kantha Bopha, 3'200 additional children would die in Cambodia every month. Kantha Bopha has become a highly respected model for the entire Southeast Asian region of just how efficient direct medical and humanitarian aid -i.e., correct medication unhampered by corruption combined with targeted long-term training - can be in the areas of curative and preventive medicine as well as in research.
