MoPoTsyo

Quarterly Review 3 – 2021 A trimester horribilis: A series of bad things happened during this year’s 3rd quarter :  A lethal traffic accident claimed the life of one of ours peer educators working in Kong Pisey. She was on her motorbike returning home on National Road 3. She had been helping with the medical […]

Quarterly Review 2 – 2021 Impact of COVID19: Due to lockdown of Phnom Penh right before Khmer New Year (that is mid-April) we became seriously restricted in our activities first in Phnom Penh and then in the provinces. Our 38 employees at our NGO Head Office moved most of our work to online. It proved […]

Quarterly Review 1 – 2021 Impact of COVID19:  A) On vaccination: A steady stream of vaccines has begun to arrive, but English variant of the virus also came. The people are afraid, wear masks but prevention is not perfect. It is not clear if the virus can be kept under control.  People with diabetes and […]

Quarterly Review 4 – 2020 Peer Educator Training: On 30-11-2020, 5 Peer Educators passed exam: 4 from Angkor Chey OD and 1 from Baray Santuk OD. We are exploring how to build a customized e-Learning platform for training of Peer Educators and Patients. We had 2 discussions a software company with this skill and experience. […]

Quarterly Review 3 – 2020 (July, August and September) Setting – up new service locations: The program team has set up a new Medical Consultation service and Revolving Drug Fund at Health Center Rompea Meanchey (Kampong Speu province, Kong Pisey Operational District (OD) and at the Referral Hospital Samaki Romduol (Svay Teap OD in Svay […]

Quarterly Review 2 – 2020 (April, May and June 2020) Corona Virus and MoPoTsyo: During the 2nd quarter of 2020, the services have continued. People with diabetes and hypertension are extra vulnerable to COVID19.  We try to help them keep good control of blood sugar and blood pressure but also prevent transmission of COVID19. We […]

Quarterly Review 1 – 2020 (January, February and March 2020) Corona Virus and MoPoTsyo: During the 1st quarter of 2020, the services have continued. People with diabetes and hypertension are extra vulnerable to COVID19. We will try to help them keep good control of blood sugar and blood pressure but also prevent transmission of COVID19. […]

Quarterly Review 4 – 2019 (October, November and December 2019) After we had had a discussion at the office of the NSSF, the National Social Security Fund, their staff went to visit Pochentong Hospital in order to see the peer educators in action during a medical consultation session and to interview patients. Hopefully we can […]

Quarterly Review 3 – 2019 The always original independent anthropologist-endocrinologist, Dr Sudah Yehuda, referenced MoPoTsyo https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/07/thinking-of-genomics-snp-and-mauritz.html in his blog. He has kept in contact for more than a decade already, visiting regularly and even facilitating a visit by surviving members of the Omaha tribe living in North America because they were interested to see with […]

Quarterly Review 2nd – 2019 Hep C:  Our cooperation with MSF France on screening among diabetic members of MoPoTsyo, and treatment continues since May 2018. Over 12 months we screened a total of 2,558 Diabetics since the start. Among them, 122 Diabetics were found Hep C positive with Bioline rapid test (80 urban, 42 rural). […]