The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital treated more than 20,000 patients in June, nearly 1,500 more than in May.

According to a report by the hospital, there were 20,308 children treated as outpatients during the month, an increase of 1,494 compared to May.

Of the patients, 3,824 were hospitalised, up 94 from 3,730 in May. A total of 1,181 children underwent surgery, an increase of 67 from last month’s 1,114. Heart operations and interventional catheterisations in the hospitals in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap were 31, an increase of 3.

The Jayavarman VII maternity hospital, also known as Kantha Bopha children’s hospital III, had 3,895 pregnant women examined and treated as outpatients, an increase of 381 compared to May’s 3,514. There were 1,392 babies born, up 95 from the previous month’s 1,297.

“Everybody is treated for free and without discrimination, thanks to our 2,500 staff who work day and night with professionalism,” it said in the report.

Swiss Kantha Bopha Foundation director-general Denis Laurent told The Post on June 28 that these are normal monthly variations.

“And we still have many severe cases to hospitalise,” he said.

In May, the number of children treated, hospitalised, and underwent surgery at Kantha Bopha decreased compared to April due to the city lockdown and restrictions on provincial travel to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Separately on June 1, the Cambodian Red Cross donated $1 million to the hospital.

In a letter dated June 3 to Cambodian Red Cross president Bun Rany Hun Sen, Laurent said the foundation has already taken “some important” measures guaranteeing to continue the “amazing and high-level” activities of the hospitals in the spirit of the late founder Dr Beat Richner.

“We can assure people that the money will help save the lives of many Cambodian children or prevent them from being handicapped,” he said.