The opening ceremony of the 30th National Health Congress

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen presides over the opening ceremony of the 30^th National Health Congress and the 7^th Joint Annual Performance Review on Health Achievements in 2008 held in Phnom Penh on Mar. 23.

Addressing the participants, Cambodian premier said he still considers the capacity improvement and the taking care on people’s health are the most important agenda for responding to the poverty reduction strategy and the implementation of the reforming program in all fields.

He said the government will increase the public resource together with other cooperation and development fund by encouraging the private sector in order to promote the investment on the health field and to promote the health care through the education, treatment and fighting against the spreading deceases in the urban and rural areas with an aims to reduce the mother-and-child mortality rate