Minister puts neo-natal intensive care on agenda

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng has issued a directive for all private maternity clinics and hospitals to establish neo-natal intensive care units – which treat seriously ill newborns and premature infants – in order to further reduce maternal and child deaths in the Kingdom.

Cambodia has already enjoyed substantial successes in improving maternal and child health, cutting the child mortality rate to 170 for every 100,000 as of 2014, compared to 472 for every 100,000 in 2005.

Bun Heng said in the letter, issued on Thursday, that the ministry must collaborate with the private sector to continue to make progress. “We appeal to the private hospitals and clinics that provide maternity services to create neonatal services in their offices to help save the lives of babies,” he wrote.

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