The 5th Workshop on Multidisciplinary Team Care for Healthcare Professionals in Cambodia

Despite Cambodia's dramatic economic growth, the country's public health and hygiene conditions are still under development. Many issues remain to be resolved, such as the public's lack of knowledge about healthcare and hygiene, the nation's insurance system's flaws, and insufficient medical facilities. The absolute shortage of healthcare professionals is particularly serious and a major obstacle to the public's access to quality healthcare. To solve this issue, Chugai Pharmaceutical held the 5th Team Medicine Workshop in Cambodia with a specified NPO Japan Heart *¹on December 13－14, 2024, and 31 staff (Khmer: 25, Japanese: 6) participated.

In Japan, Chugai Pharmaceutical has long been involved in promoting multidisciplinary team care, in which the various healthcare providers share objectives and information, collaborate and complement each other to provide healthcare. Based on this experience, we have held workshops on multidisciplinary team care for local healthcare professionals since 2020 to support collaboration with limited human resources and contribute to the realization of quality healthcare in Cambodia. "Co‐Creation Zoom: Artistic Approach to Team Building Workshop (provided by MSC*²)," which was implemented as a new communication WS from last year, was a zoological picture of an ideal hospital as an individual last year. This year, the contents have been refined and evolved from individual work to group work. They were grouped by job category, such as healthcare professionals and clerical workers, reflecting their opinions and ultimately expressing the vision of one ideal workplace for each group in the form of a park. They divided the participants into Japanese and Khmer staff, and both groups spoke their native languages. Regarding the sharing of opinions from the respective groups by giving feedback to all the participants through a Khmer Japanese interpreter. They were able to understand their feeling and share issues of communication that they did not usually notice with each other and their thoughts on the ideal image of the Japan Heart.

Workshop on the day

◆Comments from participants

Dr. Maiko Koujiro, board member/medical doctor/hospital project director, Japan Heart

This year marks the 5th year of this staff training. This time, the range of Cambodian staff participants was further expanded, and workshops were held in occupational groups. All the participants were very engaged and enjoyed completing the products within the limited time. Having a group within the same job category gave us a unique opportunity to discuss our ideal without thinking about the power balance among job categories. After the workshop, a Cambodian admin staff who participated in this training for the first time told the lecturer with a smile, “I had a great time!”. I realized that we had not been able to create such opportunities in the hospital organization, which tends to center around healthcare professionals. In training, it is important to devise ways to fully understand the contents amid the language barrier. Chugai Pharmaceutical and MSC have improved and devised the contents of training sessions based on their experience.


Chea Sophaak, Nurse, Children's Medical Center, Japan Heart

What I aim for is that Japan Heart's hospitals save many patients in Cambodia and become widely known as the dependable sites for people who are struggling to get medical care as they should, due to a variety of factors. I also hope that it is a place where the staff who work can learn and experience. In this workshop, we were able to share images of the ideal Japan Heart hospital with the staff we always work with, using various imaginations. It was a very fun and meaningful time.



We will continue our contribution to global health through continuous support activities that leverage the strengths of Chugai Pharmaceutical, aiming to provide advanced and sustainable patient-centric healthcare.

◆Please refer to the following link for past activities.

Activity in 2023   　  Activity in 2022 　　　Activity in 2021 　　　Activity in 2020

◆Reference
＊１　Japan Heart　　https://www.japanheart.org/
＊２　MSC*　Management Service Center　　https://www.msc-net.co.jp/