The dump sites however serve as a vital source of animal protein as they attract rats. Catching them for the family is a child's chore. Electricity Mondolkiri Province has no electric utility. In the province capital, Sen Monourum, those who can afford a generator and fuel recharge batteries for two or three hours of light per day. Banlung, the province seat in Ratanakiri, has a small hydroelectric plant however it only provides the town with an hour of electricity a day.
People use it to recharge batteries for another two to three hours of light.
Health Care Ratanakiri and Mondolkiri Provinces have one hospital each. Ratanakiri's has a staff of eighty, mostly from a Thai NGO, and some equipment but very little money and no pharmaceuticals. They run a generator ten hours a day for light if there is money for gasoline. The Mondolkiri hospital staff consists of only a French couple from Medicines du Monde. There is no equipment, no beds, no money, and no pharmaceutical supply.