Warangoi gets health centre with modern facilities

By VERONICA MANUK
THE recent upgrading of Warangoi health centre will make significant reduction of patients’ attendance at East New Britain’s two major hospitals.
Gazelle Restoration Authority (GRA) handed over the project last Monday to the provincial government.
The upgrading of the health centre cost K2,340,426 and the completed facilities include, renovated administration building, a maternity ward block, outpatient and waiting area, one public toilet, haus kuk, laundry block, haus win, incinerator shed, generator shed, 30.6LM of covered walkways, 53LM of two coat Bitumen seal access road, car park, 16 tuffa tanks, seven electric water pumps, a 22KVA three-phase standby generator set, one incinerator, two refrigerators, three 4.5kg fire extinguishers and some furniture.
Health chairman Boniface Setavo, while receiving the project on behalf of the provincial government said the upgrading of the Warangoi health centre was aimed to achieve significant reduction in patients’ attendance at the two major hospitals in the province, Nonga Base Hospital and Vunapope St Mary’s Hospital.
He said it would mean that there would be increase access and utilisation of the rural health services network as most had been located in growth services centre.
Representative of GRA, Poe Apelis who spoke on behalf of the chairman, Donald Manoa, said GRA needed co-operation from all sectors to maintain all completed projects from 1995 to 1999, which was the immediate term restoration programme and 2000 to 2007 under the medium term restoration programme.
GRA also handed over the consultancy services for the hydro geological mapping of Gazelle peninsula.