Cambodia is
located in South East Asia and is renowned all over the world for its
rich cultural heritage and history with amazing grandeur like Angkor,
Khmer Rouge and off course Vietnam War and landmines. But the locals
have an obscure obsession with needles and here people love to receive
injections.
While most people living in other
parts of the world would prefer to avoid injections, here the citizens
are fascinated by the use and idea of needles and intravenous drips. It
is not clear how this has originated, may be is has been integrated in
the Nation’s psyche, however people here resort to injection and
intravenous drips even when they are not prescribed and does not require
at all.
A doctor told BBC that it’s not just one
village or one person, everybody wants to go to the hospital to receive
shots. BBC journalist John Murphy who had covered the phenomenon in detail said, “I regularly saw people on IV drips and not just IV drips but also on motorbikes. These were mobile IV drips”.
Curious
about this bizarre incident Murphy once stopped a motorbike with three
people on it and he saw the passenger at the back was holding up a stick
and the end of which had a plastic bag and a bottle of IV fluid. The
passenger was diagnosed with malaria and had liver disease and
intestinal problems. According to him the drip seemed to have a ‘cooling effect’ on his body and gives him energy.
The man told Murphy, “There
are a lot of people who have IV drips on motorbikes. I am poor, I’m not
rich. I don’t have a car to drive around, so I have a drip on a
motorbike.” According to a local doctor, “Everybody who goes to
hospital gets an IV because they think it’s important and the doctors
and nurses think it’s important. If you walk in a hospital, pretty
close, every patient will have an IV.”
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