Fondation Kantha Bopha – Dr med. Beat Richner

• Children (<15 years) and expecting mothers in Cambodia
• Accompanying caregivers of patients
• Cambodian health personnel (doctors and nursing staff)

KBH objectives:

1. Contribution to the reduction of the 2014 maternal mortality rate (>170/100,000 live births).

2. Contribution to the reduction of 2014 neonatal and child mortality rate (>27/1000 live births).

SDC objectives:

3. The Cambodian Kantha Bopha Foundation’s and the Royal Government of Cambodia’s public health financing are disbursed upfront and able to cover 80% of the total KBH expenditure by 2028 (and 46% by 2021), making them less dependent on public and private fundraising in Switzerland.

4. Expansion and replication of elements of the Hospitals as a standard child healthcare model in Cambodia. The model is evidence-based, understood and promoted by health sector authorities in Cambodia.

Erwartete Resultate:  

• Dialogue with the relevant authorities for the sustainable financing of KBH by RGC and CKF.
• Advocacy for the development by KBH and KBF of a financing strategy and a formalization of all contracts between KB and their partners.
• Process evaluations and enhanced reporting on the KBH by a thorough cost-benefit analysis.
• Facilitation of the acceptance of KBH model in public health institutions and networks. Follow-up on the decentralization reform in contribution to integration of the KBH model.
• inputs on evidence-based analysis and studies; contributions to pro-poor health financing and insurance models or reforms, as co-secretariat of a group of development partners leading discussions on health financing policies in Cambodia (P4HC+).

Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

In 2016, Kantha Bopha Hospitals treated 65% of Cambodian patients for pediatric and maternal health cases. From 2015 to 2017, KBH increased its number of patients and operations significantly:

• Inpatients: from 137’270 to 147’515 children in 2017 (+6.9%);
• Outpatients: from 756’006 to 909’192 cases in 2017 (+17%);
• Maternity department: from 21’900 to 29’828 deliveries in 2017 (+27%).

The Hospitals progressed on their sustainable financing and on the upkeep of their management model, thank to :

• a regular and strengthened high-level dialogue between the hospitals and Foundation with the RGC and SDC;
• the establishment of a Cambodian Kantha Bopha Foundation (CKF) with aim to guarantees KBH’s operating model and financial sustainability.
• the raising awareness to other development partners about KBH’s cost effectiveness through the active participation of SDC in health financing working groups.

Ministry of Interior/ NCDD-Secretariat,

P4HC+ members (WHO, BMZ/GIZ Unicef, USAid, JICA, KOICA, etc.)

Phase 9 01.01.2019 - 31.03.2023   (Completed)