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Tonle Sap floating clinic
Let’s travel to the floating clinic on Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia. This doctor is examining a little girl to check whether she is well.
The people along the edges of Tonle Sap are fisher folk and many are Vietnamese. Caritas Cambodia set up the floating clinic to help people who live in the floating villages.
Floating ClinicsThe floating clinic brings the doctor to the people because often the people cannot afford to travel to the Centre. Staff and volunteers do home or hospital visits three days a week and go out onto the streets two days a week giving out basic information to help people to avoid becoming ill.
Very poor people are much more likely to die from illness than are rich people. Poor people are often weak because they do not eat enough food and work very hard.
They
may live in houses without clean water. They may not be able to read which
can make it more difficult for them to learn about diseases and how to
keep safe.
FACT: Although
a cure for the disease called tuberculosis (TB) was developed more than
50 years ago, TB continues to kill between 2 and 3 million people every
year.
Photo:
Sean Sprague
