| Cambodia’s healthcare is in a dismal state – there are no available skilled healthcare workers, daily per capita income is of less than US$1 and 80 per cent of the population is rural and located remotely. Providing tuberculosis treatment, which requires daily treatment for about 6 months would be a challenge here – Operation ASHA had to rethink its entire strategy which had given it success in India, owing to the relatively low number of people living per square kilometre. In India, while stationary centres were set up, the Operation ASHA came up with the decision to have mobile healthcare clinics. Read more here. A new graph shows the growth in the number TB treatment clinics it opened since its inception – see it here. |
