Children’s Surgical Center is a non-governmental organization (NGO) run by Dr. James Gollogly, MD FRCSC, in Phnom Phen, Cambodia. This program provides technologically appropriate surgical services and training in a developing country. At our office in Monterey, California, we collect surgical supplies and equipment for the hospital in Phnom Phen. In 2007 I performed the first total hip arthroplasties and instrumented spine surgeries to be done in Cambodia. I have an active and ongoing program of helping to train surgeons in Cambodia in some of these techniques. Here is a link to a brief clip on youtube to a short segment of a documentary on CSC…
Currently, in Cambodia, a population of more than 12 million people suffers under a significant burden of disease from land mine injuries, trauma, traffic accidents, and congenital abnormalities, without access to appropriate medical care. More information about Children’s Surgical Center can be found at www.csc.org, and a summary of the challenges of delivering medical aid in a country like cambodia are summarized in this article published in the British medical journal, The Lancet.
Children’s Surgical Center is dedicated to improving medical care in Cambodia by providing surgical training to Cambodian surgeons in their own environment, with diseases that they frequently encounter.
