Hello everyone. I read an article in the Cambodia Daily. I was surprised to know that Senate President Chea Sim from the ruling party has 42 advisers. I don't understand why he needs so many advisers. According to historian and former politcian Son Suobert, all of the advisers are paid advisers and they are using the national budget to pay wages for those advisers.
One more thing, last week I went to a village in a rural area in Kompong Thom province. I was surprised and upset by what I was told. People there told me that in their village , there are two nurses. During the rainy season, people often get ill and the two nurses go from house to house treating the sick in the village. It seems that they have good, well paid jobs despite the fact that they have never been to university to study medicine. The people have to pay them a lot of money to have them come to their houses to treat a sick member of their family. A man who gets ill at least two or three times a year told me that the last time he was ill was two months ago and that it cost him a fortune to buy treatment from one of the nurses. He said he got injection three times and took some pills and it cost him nearly $50.
I also have one more story that surprised me. I was so surprised to know that there are 552 kinds of birds in Cambodia. I was watching a game show called IN THE WALL on CTN when a question came up for the competitors. The question was" How many kinds of birds are there in Cambodia"
This is last news that made me surprised. I was surprised that there used to be 35 fishing lots on the Tonle Sap lake. I believe that those fishing lots adversely affected the subsistence fishing. It was good that the government permanently canceled all the 35 fishing lots and created conservation areas.
Thank you for sharing all of this information. 42 advisers is really unnecessary. I'm sure even the President of the US does not have that many advisers. Doesn't it say something about the qualifications of that individual if he needs to be advised by that many other people?
ReplyDeleteThat's very sad about the health situation; healthcare should not be a business that abuses citizens.
Hopefully the sustainable fishing situation gets regulated in the Tonle Sap Lake. I can't imagine what would happen to this country if the lake ran out of fish!