TPO Cambodia

This project is jointly implemented by TPO Cambodia and Louvain Development (LD) and was funded by DGCD (Belgium government). The project has developed joint working relationships between the mental health services at referral hospitals and the community mental health programme taking place at grassroots level, ensuring effective referrals.

Project Objectives:

• Improving the quality of mental health care and increasing access of mentally-ill people to the clinic.
• Supporting two mental health units in Kampong Thom province
• Facilitating proper treatment and also enabling poor patients from TPO target areas to access psychiatric treatment offered at the mental health units.
• Building the capacity of clinical staff to provide good quality treatment to patients.
• Ensuring that OPD staff take responsibility by seeing patients and attending administrative meetings, home visits, and also meeting with TPO staff to discuss case management and to share relevant experiences.

Targets:

People with mental health problems in Kampong Thom province and from nearby geographical provinces. The project has supported the Out Patient Clinic at Kampong Thom Provincial Hospital and the Mental Health Clinic in Baray Santuk Referral Hospital.