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To mark the 30th year since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was recognized in Cambodia, an Apostle was in the land for three days to minister, build bridges with government leaders and help improve the country’s health care.
On Monday, January 22, 2024, Elder Dale G. Renlund became the first Church leader to meet with the prime minister of Cambodia. Elder Renlund called Prime Minister Hun Manet “a remarkable individual.”
“He’s very capable and has a vision for the country to help people and lift them. It’s just a really remarkable vision. And it’s very clear he’s charged his government ministers to do that,” Elder Renlund said. “The work that we’ve done with helping with humanitarian things — including elevating the level of health care in some places — aligns completely with what the government wants to do.”
The Apostle told Prime Minister Manet that the Church of Jesus Christ is donating nearly US$2.2 million to build a heart hospital in Siem Reap (318 kilometers south of Phnom Penh). The objective is to bring better health care to Cambodian provinces. This will bless people like the prime minister’s own uncle, who died in another province from an acute coronary syndrome.
“We’re creating a situation where emergency cardiac care can be given with a heart attack so that people can get less damage to their heart when they have a heart attack, preserve the heart muscle function so they don’t develop heart failure or that they don’t die,” said Elder Renlund, a former cardiologist. “Right now when that happens, people have to be transported hours and hours to Phnom Penh to get that kind of care.”
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