Cambodia Project Week 3
It's the end of another week's work at the Children's Surgical Centre (CSC) and the National Paediatric Hospital (NPH).
It's been quite quiet on the patient front, as everyone is busy preparing for the upcoming Pchum Benh week long national holiday. Therefore, much of the week has instead been spent completing intensive training with the cleft advisors.
We have continued to support Samnang and Alin in their ability to assess patients and provide relevant information and advice. For example, they have both demonstrated their ability to model effective ways to feed babies with…
have finally arrived in Phnom Penh and are already settling into the Cambodian way of life. Our first few days were spent getting to know our new environment and experiencing as much of the local culture as possible.
Each year this project sends newly qualified therapists to Cambodia for three months, after they have completed their course in Speech and Language Therapy at City University. Now in its third year of CLAPA funding, the project aims to assess areas of need and provide intervention and training in order to develop basic sustainable speech and language therapy services for patients with cleft lip and palate.
