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Medical Center Lodges
in Luxury
Hotel by Mekong
Unexpectedly, perhaps, but nonetheless conveniently, the
Raffles Medical Center occupies part of the business floor of the
Hotel Sofitel Cambodiana.
There, below the main lobby, are examining rooms, emergency
treatment facilities, a stabilization room and laboratory and
diagnostic facilities.
Dr Lai Hwee Yee, who graduated from medical school in Singapore in
1992 and oversaw medical evacuations to hospitals there for
SOS-International from 1993, is a general practitioner and surgeon
with a special interest in emergency and trauma medicine.
Dr Ly Srey Vyna, a Cambodian who received her medical training in
Poland, interned with a Singapore doctor for a year before joining
the center. Dr Duong Chhay is a Cambodian-educated general
surgeon.
Rounding out the team are Dr Pann Chanthol, a French-trained
radiologist who operates the echography/ultrasound equipment, and
Lye Kok Leang, a French-trained lab technician.
From this lineup comes a wealth of languages—English, Mandarin,
Cantonese, Hokkien dialect, Japanese, French and Khmer.
With Dr Lai’s expertise, the center is able to offer emergency
diagnostic and stabilizing facilities for head and neck injuries,
also fractures and heart attacks, strokes and asthma attacks.
Affiliations with hospitals in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and England can be drawn on when
evacuations are deemed necessary and the center then connects with
WorldAccess Asia, AXA Assistance, HengGref, Europe Assistance and
Worldwide Assistance for a variety of evacuation services. The
center even has its own ambulance as well as charter agreements
with various forms of air transport.
Raffles’ basic consultation fee is $30.
—Elizabeth Wright
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