When the citizens are healthy, the nation will have a strong workforce for the national economic development, underlined Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Therefore, the development of health sector, including the strengthening of medical capacity to treat critically-ill patients, is very crucial, the Premier added while he and Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. Ueno Atsushi were presiding over the official inauguration of the Centre of Surgical Service of Siem Reap Provincial Referral Hospital in the provincial city this morning. Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet also encouraged the health sector's modernisation, capacity building and expansion by starting from the expansion of regional hospitals for effective service provision for the people. Modernisation of regional hospitals will help to provide comprehensive services to the people in a timely manner, he stressed. Siem Reap Provincial Referral Hospital broke ground on the four-storey Centre of Surgical Ser vice on Dec. 1, 2021 and the construction was completed on Oct. 30, 2023 at a total cost of almost US$20 million, funded by a grant aid of the Government and people of Japan. The centre will contribute to improving the provision of health services in the provincial referral hospital. Source: Agence Kampuchea Pressei
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