LINDSAY MURDOCH

 

Doctors say it is miracle Soth Rey is alive.

 

Her face is disfigured by a wide gaping hole, her nose and right cheek eaten away by necrosis, a rare form of rapid cell degeneration.

But the 18-year-old, whose story focuses attention on the poor state of medical care in Cambodia, is not giving up as residents of Phnom Penh raise funds through the website Just Giving after the Phnom Penh Post revealed her plight.

 

In December, Soth Rey was working in a massage parlour to help support her parents and three younger siblings in the north-western town of Siem Reap when she fell ill with a sinus infection. A doctor diagnosed the flu and sent her home.

 

read more http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/90332622/cambodian-soth-rey-in-fight-for-her-life-as-necrosis-eats-into-her-face

 

 

22 hours since the OP, and no responses!!! 

 

I'll be looking to see if I can offer some help.

 

What a tragedy, just 18 years old.

Edited March 13, 20179 yr by F4UCorsair

Aiming to highlight the lack/shortage of basic healthcare in Cambodia yet '

Weeks later she developed ulcers in her nose and the doctor decided to pull out some of her teeth. When that didn't solve the problem, she went to a traditional Khmer healer who spat and blew on the ulcers for a month. The illness persisted.'

 

I hope she gets better in any case.