Healthcare - History
Healthcare History and Current State:
Vietnam's and Cambodia's health problems are almost overwhelming. Most health care providers lack even basic running water in treatment rooms. Lab testing is rudimentary at best. Surgical and anesthesia equipment is antiquated and in short supply, and intensive care units as we know them are virtually nonexistent. Dentistry and preventive medicine are rarely practiced.
Most medical hospitals and doctors lack training, resources to make diagnoses, and technology to provide the medical care."
Most of the Cham community does not even have healthcare providers, health clinics and healthcare professionals on top of the above serious healthcare problems.
Most Cham people and children are not immunized along with suffering from communicable diseases and nutritional deficiencies such as iodine deficiency in mountainous areas that leads to cretinism and mental retardations.
Although the government's efforts to control infectious disease has decreased infant mortality, many infectious diseases that are easily treated in the U.S. often go under-treated or unrecognized.