Borland Groover Clinic Docs Leaving Sihanouk Hospital with Patients Waiting Outside of the Front Door

Below is a blog about bringing state of the art Endoscopic equipment to the Sihanouk Hospital in Phnom Phen Cambodia, Follow the story to the start, by clicking at the bottom of the pages to previous posts, I hope you enjoy the story, and the pics.

Our 9 days come to an end in the am, I want to thank the great staff at Sihanouk Hospital for the care of us during our stay with them. Without Sandie's and Angie's help, these endoscopic rooms would never have gotten up and running, and also, without Angie's pre equipment send off work, this equipment would never have made it to Phnom Phen.  Dr. Tek, you and your wife made this trip outstanding. As our guide to the customs, the foods, the politics of Cambodia, we could not have asked for better ambassadors.Without Brigitte Schmites help, nothing would have happened, Danke!  I wish to thank the partners of the Borland Groover Clinic which supported this project both in transport support, but in technical support and staff, again without the Borland Groover Clinic, this would not have happen. We are very grateful to Olympus of North America, THANK YOU!, and to Baptist Health, Jacksonville Florida.

Drs Etzkorn & Tek with the Department of Surgery, Sihanouk Hospital, Phnom Phen, Cambodia

Our final day is over, 30 cases today! Over 9 days on the ground, we set up two rooms of near new endoscopic equipment, gave a reserve room of equipment which was put in storage. Trained techs and RN's on equipment care, cleaning, ect. Tought three docs on perfecting their endoscopic skill, and worked, performing endoscopic cases for five days for the Sihanouk Hospital system. Its time to go home, it was worth ever cent the cost to do this. Its my goal to return, I would strongly encourage any health care professional to concider giving time, equipment, skill, if not out right cash to this organization.

A Sad Consult:

The patients mom gave us permission to post her daughters pic and story. She presented with classic common bile duct obstruction from stones, with abdominal pain, jaundice, but because Sihanouk Hospital dose not yet have ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Pancreatography) ability, she will require an open lap, with common bile duct exploration, far more risky.  Our hope, within the next 12 month either we, or some other group will help out with setting up ERCP ability at the hospital.

After 5 days, the docs seem to be getting much better!

Hall way consult

Eating lunch in the O.R., thanks to Dr. Tek's wife, always good with plenty of antioxidants

Tr. Tek's wife, resting between a procedure, helping with translation