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About 152 sufferers had been evacuated from Krakor Referral Hospital in Pursat province after it flooded in a single day due heavy rains, damaging wards and important gear.
The flooding on Tuesday evening, left a number of wards below water. Hospital beds, chairs, and different furnishings had been broken, as workers had been capable of take away solely important medicines, paperwork and primary medical provides because the water rose.
Images and movies posted on Fb present sufferers stranded in a constructing whereas receiving therapy because the hospital skilled sudden flooding. One video confirmed workers and hospital guests speeding to maneuver medical gear out of the ability, whereas folks waded by means of knee-deep water across the hospital compound.
Deputy Krakor Referral Hospital director, Cheang Sokhun, instructed CamboJA Information that 152 sufferers had been transferred to close by shelters, the place well being employees are offering primary therapy and monitoring these with critical circumstances. Hospital workers and native authorities labored collectively to reply to the flood and supply care to sufferers.
“We moved sufferers to close by locations and supplied therapy however we can’t function totally. Some critical sufferers had been transferred to the provincial referral hospital for therapy,” Sokhun stated. “However some elements [of Krakor Referral Hospital] are broken. We managed to maneuver issues like hospital beds and different gear in time.”
In response to him, about 40% of sufferers are affected by dengue. Hospital workers are in pressing want of provides to proceed offering medical care. Authorities and hospital workers are assessing the injury and dealing to revive the service as soon as the water recedes, he stated.
Pursat governor and Provincial Catastrophe Administration Committee head Khoy Rida confirmed that sufferers had been instantly evacuated from the hospital together with the transferring of medical gear to protected areas. He performed an on-site inspection in a single day.
Rida instructed CamboJA Information that heavy rainfall on Tuesday evening affected six villages in Krakor district in Pursat province. Nevertheless, the flood in Krakor referral hospital, which has receded barely, broken some gear. “The sufferers had been moved to the district corridor, the Cambodian Individuals’s Get together corridor and a provincial hospital, however the state of affairs is manageable,” he stated.
In the meantime, Krakor district governor Oun Sophalla and native authorities assessed the flood injury on houses, colleges, roads, pagodas and rice fields in all of the 11 communes, based on Krakor district administration’s Fb.
Soth Kimkolmony, spokesperson of the Nationwide Committee for Catastrophe Administration (NCDM), stated they’re working with the authorities to deal with the situation and assist affected folks, noting that the state of affairs is below management.
“We’re working with related authorities to evaluate the influence of the flooding,” he stated. “The hospital was additionally flooded and sufferers had been evacuated however we’re capable of handle the state of affairs.”
The flooding highlights the vulnerability of well being amenities to excessive climate. UNICEF has warned that greater than 400 well being facilities throughout Cambodia are vulnerable to disasters, together with floods, as El Niño disrupts rainfall patterns and brings each drought and heavy downpours to elements of the nation.
Cambodia has already skilled erratic climate circumstances linked to the present El Niño cycle, with Pursat among the many provinces affected by drought earlier this yr, adopted by flooding in different areas. Officers have urged stronger catastrophe preparedness to guard water provides, agriculture and important companies corresponding to well being care.
By September 2026, about 150,000 hectares of wet-season rice—round 5% of the nation’s three million hectares—had been flooded, and over 57,000 households in 10 provinces evacuated.
Hospital and provincial authorities haven’t launched a full evaluation of the injury or confirmed when Krakor Referral Hospital will resume regular operation.
