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Robib Census

Robib is one of six villages in the district of Rovieng, Preah Vihear. It
is where the Hironaka School is located, which enrolls students from
all six villages.
Our Cambodian staff of teachers at the Hironaka School recently took
a survey of all the families in Robib to determine the main occupation,
income, family size, number of children and a determination of their
financial ability to pay for medical care. All the families in this survey
are eligible to participate in our pilot telemedicine project (see
TELEMEDICINE). Once a month a nurse from the Sihanouk Hospital Center of
Hope in Phnom Penh and David Robertson, on leave from the MIT Media
Laboratory, who volunteered to establish and run this project,
travel to Robib for four days to examine patients from the village.
They then transmit their findings via the Internet, with digital photo
attachments, to the charity Sihanouk Hospital and to Dr. Joseph
Kvedar of Telepartners at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for
diagnosis and evaluation. Based on the findings transmitted back to Robib
within hours, the patients are taken to the Kompong Thom Provincial
Hospital (two hours away) or to Phnom Penh, the capital, six to eight
hours' distant, if the case is serious.
The costs for transportation and treatment are subsidized from the
profit proceeds of the sale of the silk scarves produced in Robib (see
ROBIB PRODUCTS) and profits from the pig farm which was also established
from the scarf proceeds.
The census is used to establish the financial status of patients and to
determine to what degree their treatment should be subsidized. In most
cases it is a 100 percent subsidy. Where patients have some financial
resources they may be asked to pay from 20 to 50 percent of the costs, or
the full amount.
Patients from other villages are able to receive the free telemedicine
examination and diagnosis but must finance their own medical care costs
because sufficient funding to expand the coverage to patients not residing
in Robib is not available at this time.
The income figures are in riel, the local currency. The prevail exchange
rate is: $1.00 = 3970 riel.
OCCUPATION, FAMILY AND INCOME SURVEY OF ROBIB VILLAGE
| No. |
Householder
Name
|
Main Occupation
|
Family
members |
No.
of children |
Monthly
income |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1 |
Prom
Ee |
farmer |
9 |
7 |
R105,000 |
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|
carpenter |
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|
| 2 |
Chhorn
Voeurn |
farmer |
5 |
3 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
carpenter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
Lamily
Phourn |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R10,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
So
Thourn |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R20,000 |
| |
|
pig
raising |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 5 |
Mei
Loeurng |
farmer |
9 |
7 |
R10,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 6 |
Sem
Sothoeurn |
farmer |
2 |
0 |
R40,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 7 |
Urm
Chhive |
farmer |
6 |
5 |
R45,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
Srey
Nornn |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R60,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
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|
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| 9 |
Sun
Sok |
worker |
10 |
6 |
R90,000 |
| |
|
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|
|
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| 10 |
Sunn
Vandy |
farmer |
6 |
4 |
R60,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 11 |
Kuch
Sunhov |
worker |
5 |
3 |
R40,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 12 |
Eang
Toeurn |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R70,000 |
| |
|
policeman |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 13 |
Nguon
Sokhom |
farmer |
3 |
0 |
R70,000 |
| |
|
policewoman |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 14 |
Nguon
Khon |
farmer |
2 |
0 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 15 |
Ang
Hoeurn |
farmer |
|
|
|
| |
|
soldier |
7 |
5 |
R70,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 16 |
Bun
Ravy |
farmer |
|
|
|
| |
|
wood
cutter |
4 |
2 |
R15,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 17 |
Meas
Lamphy |
farmer |
8 |
6 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
policeman |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 18 |
Pang
May |
farmer |
|
|
|
| |
|
pig
raising |
4 |
2 |
R30,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 19 |
Korn
Noeurm |
missionary |
6 |
4 |
R280,800 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 20 |
Puth
Kimseang |
farmer |
5 |
|
R10,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
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| 21 |
Sam
Soeurn |
assistant
to |
8 |
6 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
district |
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| |
|
education |
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|
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| 22 |
Chan
Son |
farmer |
9 |
7 |
R60,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 23 |
Meak
Nath |
farmer |
7 |
5 |
R80,000 |
| |
|
|
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|
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| 24 |
Leng
Phearin |
farmer |
7 |
5 |
R60,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 25 |
Bang
Mao |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R30,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 26 |
Chan
Lorn |
farmer |
7 |
5 |
R50,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 27 |
Eam
Sokha |
day
worker |
10 |
8 |
R30,000 |
| |
|
|
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| 28 |
Srey
Ry |
farmer |
5 |
3 |
R54,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 29 |
Pang
Sokheurn |
farmer |
8 |
6 |
R80,000 |
| |
|
wood
cutter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 30 |
Nou
Chen |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R70,000 |
| |
|
policeman |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
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| 31 |
Mork
Savoeurn |
tailor |
4 |
2 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
pig
raising |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
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| 32 |
Kim
Vannath |
farmer |
4 |
2 |
R100,000 |
| |
|
teacher |
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| 33 |
Oeurn
E |
farmer |
4 |
1 |
R80,000 |
| |
|
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| 34 |
Sun
Mom |
farmer |
4 |
2 |
R70,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 35 |
Beng
San |
farmer |
7 |
5 |
R80,000 |
| |
|
carpenter |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 36 |
Prom
La |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R60,000 |
| |
|
soldier |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 37 |
Doung
San |
farmer |
3 |
1 |
R30,000 |
| |
|
|
|
|
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| 38 |
Kee
Bun |
farmer |
5 |
3 |
R40,000 |
| |
|
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|
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| 39 |
Eam
Sokhom |
assistant |
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