School Health Project for All Cambodian Children

Vol. 1
Produced date: December 25, 2020

The project of developing school health services for all children in Cambodia
As the Cambodian teacher training schools in Phnom Penh and Battambang have reformed from a two-year system to afour-year teacher education collage (TEC), a new school health course has planned to be established. Until now, healtheducation has not been taught as a subject in primary and secondary schools in Cambodia. It is stipulated that a healthsubject should be taught once a week in primary and secondary schools, and a curriculum and textbooks are being
formulated and implemented. However, teachers who can teach health subjects are not trained yet. Accordingly, there
are no specialized teachers who can teach them, let alone the curriculum. In addition, there is no textbook to use forthe lecture. Therefore, with the support of the Nippon Foundation, this project develops school health curriculum andtextbooks for teacher training courses in primary and secondary schools at teacher training colleges, and trains andtrains lecturers who can use them to conduct classes at TECs in Phnom Penh and Battambang. At the same time, incooperation with KIZUNA, we are working on the dissemination of school health training for in-service teachers and themodel project of the health room.
The members of the project on the Japanese side are Takashi Asakura, Haruka Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei University), Naoko
Aoyagi (Ibaraki University), Chikage Saito (Saitama University), Sadako Nakamura (Jumonji Gakuen University), Hirofumi
Monobe (Yokohama National University). The members of the Cambodia office are Yuuka Masuko and Thay Sokheng.
Prof. Takashi Asakura (Tokyo Gakugei University)

School Health 2 nd Workshop Report

Yuuka Masuko, Thay Sokheng

School Health 2nd workshop was held on 17th and 24th December. This workshop was conducted online and the topic
was “Overview of School Health Syllabus”. The day1 (17th) was lecture day by Prof. Asakura from Tokyo Gakugei
University and day 2 (24th) was presentation session by 4 groups of 16 lecturers from PTEC and BTEC. It was a good
opportunity for lecturers to learn new knowledge about school health through active discussion on both days.

Thank you forparticipating in this WS!

Comments from lecture
By joining this workshop, I’ve gained new experiences andknowledge’s about School Health which is a topic that I
was not familiar with before. I was really grateful in joining
this workshop. Especially, I would like to thank all theprofessors who worked hard in explaining, responding to
all questions and share good knowledge with me.

From my point of view regarding both workshop, I believethat it was a well-prepared workshop. Lectures get towork together and discuss about researched topics related
to School Health. This kind of research help us inunderstanding deeper about school health in Cambodia.

Phnom Penh Office
Address:
Rise Commercial Building, #5, St.282. BKK1, Phnom Penh

Please feel free to visit us!
Left: Yuuka Masuko (Project Coordinator)
Right: Thay Sokheng (Project Assistant Coordinator)

COVID-19 in Cambodia

Keo Kalyan(Lyan), Touch Sopheakphallika(Lika), Saki Kawamitsu▶The Infection trends in Cambodia
Cambodia confirmed the first case of Covid-19 on 27th January 2020. As of 14th December 2020, 359 confirmed cases ofCovid-19 have been reported in Cambodia, of which 309 have recovered and zero death1. Cambodia detected the firstcase of community transmission on 28th November 2020. There are totally 40 cases confirmed by now related to “28Nov incident”. There is concern that health systems could become overwhelmed or collapse if there were widespread
COVID-19 community outbreak. In response to Covid-19 outbreak, the government has taken a number of intensive
measures including closing schools, imposing travel restriction in community, imposing a mandatory 14-day quarantine
for traveler entering the country, social distancing and wearing mask, and giving power to the sub-national authorities
and Provincial Health Departments to suspend any entity or institution not adhering to public health protocols. Thegovernment raise funds for procurement of COVID-19 vaccines to secure enough vaccinating for Cambodian citizens freeof charge. As of 8th December, a total of more than $30 million has raised.

▶Comparing to other countries, how different the spread of infection is?
Cambodia is ranked in the 3rd place among the 166 studied nations across the world by the Bureau de Prospective
Economique (BPE) of Senegal as top nation of best Covid-19 containment and the 1st place in Asia in terms of thecountry’s effective measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to handle pandemic’s fallouts2. The spread of
infection in Cambodia is in a very lower rate comparing to countries in the region and the world, credits togovernment’s quick responsiveness. According to WHO, over 80 percent of total cases in Cambodia were imported,
the remaining cases were locally acquired and contact tracing is ongoing for cases related to the community orhousehold cluster3. While Cambodia has reported a small volume of cases, preventing a larger-scale community
transmission is critical.
Index of the resilience of COVID-19 in the countries
Worldamongcountries

Asia

166

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Saint kitts and Navis

1

Cambodia2

Seychelles

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Thailand3

Cambodia

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Brunei*As of November 15th weekly reported from BPE of Senegal
1.Ministry of Health, December 14, 2020, retrieved from http://cdcmoh.gov.kh/479-update-on-covid-19
2. https://lepetitjournal.com/cambodge/covid-les-resultats-du-cambodge-parmi-les-meilleurs-du-monde-292615 [Accessed. December 16, 2020.]
3.WHO. (07 December 2020). Cambodia: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report #23.

Internship at TGU
3 students from Nagasaki University have been
doing internship at Tokyo Gakugei University
since November 2020. The topic “COVID-19 inCambodia” is written by Lyan, Lika and Saki.

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