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Calmette Hospital or l'hôpital Calmette, located on Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh, is a public hospital managed by Ministry of Health and funded by the Cambodian and French governments.〔Lim, D. (2007). Introduction of a Trauma Assessment Tool in"/>to the Emergency Department of Calmette Hospital. (Doctorate thesis). University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Retrieved from http://wiki.straightjacketstudio.com/images/8/82/CIH2006-7-DLim-TraumaAssessment.pdf〕 It is considered as Cambodia's flagship health care centre.〔Launey, G.D. (2010, November 23). Scenes of grief amid Cambodia crush carnage. ''BBC News''. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11824082〕 The name of the hospital was derived from Albert Calmette, a renowned French bacteriologist. Calmette Hospital was built in 1950 and received support from several French organizations. In 1998, it was staffed by 30 physicians and surgeons and 50 nurses. There were 250 beds, as well as surgical, medical, gynecology and obstetrics departments, along with a radiology unit (including ultrasound and echocardiogram but no computer tomography), hematology, biochemistry and microbiology laboratories for medical analyses, a central pharmacy and an outpatient clinic. There is also a 10-bed intensive care unit,〔Pilsczek, F.H. (2001, July 10). Hospital medicine in Cambodia: a visiting doctor's perspective. ''Canadian Medical Association Journal''. Retrieved from http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/1/37〕〔Fabre-Teste, B., Sokha, Om. (1999). Calmette Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Assessment of the implementation of the Medical Information System (SIM). Global analysis of the 1998 results. ''Cachiers Santé''. 367-75. Retrieved from http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/en/revues/sante_pub/san/e-docs/00/04/2D/B3/resume.phtml?type=text.html〕 It is a fee-for-service hospital that offers a second tier of care for those who are unable to pay.〔 The hospital provides health care services for the citizens of Phnom Penh (73%), surrounding provinces (17%), and to foreigners (10%). Calmette has approximately fifteen thousand in-patients per year of which 20% are emergency visits. Trauma-related injuries accounted for 47% of the emergency visits to Calmette in 2005. It was the most common reason for seeking emergency services in 2006. In addition, cranial trauma was the leading cause of mortality from the emergency department (accounting for 38% of the mortality rate).〔 ==History== Before the Khmer Rouge era, what was then the Calmette Foundation Clinic was a private hospital for the wealthy. In 1974, the clinic was closed and educated individuals including those working at Calmette either fled abroad or were executed if they could not pose as being uneducated. In 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, Revolution Hospital as it had been renamed had only three doctors out of the only 40 estimated to be left in the entire country.〔 A team of Vietnamese doctors was brought in, soon to be joined by Cubans, East Germans, Russians and Bulgarians. French had been the language of medicine in Cambodia, but soon it became multilingual. and Dr Heng Tay Khy who was named chief of surgery, spoke six languages. In 1989, Médecins du Monde conducted a study that recommended the hospital be reestablished as a public facility. At the time, it was 90 percent reserved for high-ranking officials and 10 percent for the poor.〔 The French NGO recommended the allocation of resources be reversed. Further, the report recommended massive renovations and reconstruction costing $3 million, and that the name be changed to Calmette Hospital. These changes, funded by the French government and with donations from a variety of other nations since, including Japan, have given Phnom Penh the well-equipped facility it has today. There are 203 beds, 101 of them medical and 57 for surgical patients. Other beds are in the emergency, anaesthetic recovery, maternity and gynecology areas. A modern laboratory wing performs testing procedures and there are x-ray facilities. Plans for the future include expansion of the cardiac treatment center, a new facility for the treatment of monks and work on the intensive care and emergency units.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calmette Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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