Aaron To Cambodia

We spent the next two days visiting different areas of Koh Kong, learning more about the Broeckert's ministry, and spending time with our Khmer friends. One of the things that we did was get a tour of the hospital in Koh Kong where Mary works. It was definitively different from a hospital here in the U.S.

Ambulances

The hospital had some resources like here in the U.S.- meds, ultrasound, xray, and was capable of doing some lab studies, but lacked many of the other resources we have here in the U.S. For example, the ER was an empty room except for maybe eight plain beds and IV poles.

Seeing a patient in the emergency room who tried to commit suicide by ingesting a pesticide

Not only did Mary give us a tour of the hospital, but we also rounded on patients there with her and discussed with the doctors the plan for treatment.

Seeing a patient who was robbed and beaten

Seeing a patient in the intensive care unit

Discussing differential diagnoses with a Khmer doctor regarding a patient with stroke-like symptoms

The laboratory

Operating Room

That weekend, we also went to the market. What an experience! I went looking to replace my flip flops which tore, but Hubert laughed when he learned I wore a U.S. size 12, saying I wouldn't find anything that large there. I did find lots of other things though...

Shoes

Shark

Fish

Chicken

More fish

Squid

FDA approved meat (FDA= Flies Desire and Accumulate)

Veggies

Eel (alive, but not well)

Yep, it is what it looks like. Don't eat it all in one sitting, ya pig.

There was a lot more there than just meat, but that's mostly what I took pictures of.

One of the nights we had supper at a restaurant at the Thailand-Cambodia border, where we ate on the shore of the Gulf of Thailand while the sun set. Our U.S. currency went very far as usual- we ate for a couple bucks each.