Clinic closed after death of baby

[geovalin]

Officials in Pailin province’s Sala Krao district have temporarily closed a private clinic run by a licensed nurse after a four-month-old child died following an injection. Touch Kimnhean, 40, the nurse in charge of the clinic, was also arrested on Monday, one day after the death of the child.

District police officer Sok Ponleu said the victim’s family did not file a complaint in the case, but the provincial court prosecutor decided to pursue action against Mr Kimnhean. “He denied giving medical treatment that caused the death of the victim and said his treatment was in line with medical standards,” Mr Ponleu said.

“The relatives of the victim did not file a complaint against him because they thought their baby’s death was due to their bad decision.” Mr Kimnhean was detained and sent to the provincial health department on Tuesday afternoon, after which he was due to appear in the provincial court.

 

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[Grumpy Duck]

What business does a nurse have operating a clinic without a supervising physician. It is true in many countries trained and licensed nurse practitioners may work as doctors, however as I understand even nurse practitioners are required to work under a physicians supervision. 

I am curious was an autopsy performed to determine cause of death? What was the diagnosis and immunization administered?

[trihent]

2 hours ago, Grumpy Duck said:

What business does a nurse have operating a clinic without a supervising physician. It is true in many countries trained and licensed nurse practitioners may work as doctors, however as I understand even nurse practitioners are required to work under a physicians supervision. 

 

Mostly nurse practitioners work almost independently on a day  to day basis. In Thailand the clinics are overseen by a physician that handles supervising several clinics in a broad area, visiting an individual clinic on a rota system. I suspect clinics in Cambodia work much the same. 

[Sheryl]

Nursing is rather different in Cambodia than in the west. Nurses in Cambodia are trained and allowed to prescribe and treat.

 

Most government clinics have only nurses on staff.

 

Conversely, nurses in hospitals do not provide care in the way one thinks of nursing, that is done by the family.

 

Not in any way illegal (or unusual) for him to have had a clinic and been treating patients in it. Whether he did something wrong in this case that led to the death, impossible to tell from the information provided. We don't know what was wrong with the baby to begin with, nor what medication he gave, nor what caused the death.