The Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital has been in operation for over seven years now and has been progressively extended and modified to meet the most urgent needs. If it weren't for the medical care provided at Kantha Bopha a further 2'400 children, if not more, would die every month in Cambodia, and many more would be left disabled for life. By paying our staff a living wage we seem to have found a way of successfully fighting corruption which otherwise is widespread in Cambodia. To this day there have been no thefts at the hospital, no cases of medicine simply vanishing into thin air rather than being administered to the patient in need. The hospital operates 24 hours a day, and part of our staff is working shifts.
Medical care is freely available to all children.
For these children Kantha Bopha represents the only chance to get any medical care at all. It is our belief that every child has a right to correct medication. In order to avoid the traditional, cost-intensive hospital management and the bureaucracy going with it, we have allocated those tasks which can be dealt with locally, including logistics, to those members of the medical staff who have the necessary administrative skills. This means that your money will be spent fully for the benefit of the children in need and the Cambodian population. What's more, we have managed further to reduce the number of foreign staff to just four.