Japan Grants over 120 thousand for Community Maternal and Child Health Care

Japanese government awarded PH-Japan US$121,828 to support the community project of maternal and child health care in Kampong Thom (Phase II). The signing ceremony was held 25 June 2012 at Embassy of Japan by Masafumi Kuruki, Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia, and Ms. Kume Yumiko, PH-Japan’s representative. The Ambassador said the aid provision in health sector especially for the promotion of maternal and child health care is vitally important and highly appreciated in economic field since it is like the investment in child who will become the future leader of the society. Japanese government, he added, has made contribution to the enhancement of mother and child health care in Cambodia through health structure reform, human resource development and even the construction of Japan’s grant-aided maternal and child health care centre, which could help lower mortality rate of mother and child and better their health condition in recent years. This new aid project will further continue the reform activities, and 47,000 regional peoples are expected to be the beneficiaries of knowledge in maternal and child health care and hygienic issue. (Rasmei Kam.)