Wow! It’s been a long and packed 2 ½ weeks in Viet Nam and
Cambodia. Its been approximately a year
and a half since I had been back in VN with HAF and I am so proud of the hard
work of Josh, Brian, Carol, An and Quynh towards our goal of providing health care
improvement. HAF is now working with the
WHO and the VN Ministry of Health in improving non-communicable disease
diagnosis, treatment, and management. We formed a comprehensive project protocol to educate and to treat
hypertension and diabetes. It’s been a long process of training the healthcare
practitioners at these local clinics, but it’s definitely paid off. We have practitioners who are eager to learn
and excited to help their patients and we have patients who feel better and are
happy with their treatments and interested in learning how to live healthier
lives. This has not gone unnoticed—the
WHO and Minister of Health are expanding our protocol to the rest of the
district!
Cambodia was awesome! It was so wonderful to work with compassionate,
smart, driven Andrew and Jenny from Children’s Future International (CFI) in
Battambang. They do amazing work and
provide many at risk children with a safe house of room, board, and
education. Their mission is to provide
these kids with skills to integrate into society and grow up to be responsible,
successful adults in their community. We made this trip to help them with basic
medical needs of the kids they take care of. We worked with their local staff
and evaluated some of the kids. It was a
short trip to Cambodia, but we look forward to working more with CFI in the
future.
