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By ZACHERY PER
EIGHTY per cent of the rural health facilities in Eastern Highlands
province that have been closed down for lack of regular monitoring and
performance evaluation will be re-opened.
Eastern Highlands provincial administrator Munare Uyassi made the
undertaking for the re-opening of mostly rural aid posts and day clinics
yesterday while officially handing over four new vehicles to three
important provincial divisions.
The new Toyota Land Cruisers were distributed to the health division,
provincial AIDS committee, education and technical division.
Mr Uyassi said due to transport difficulties, there had been no regular
performance monitoring of health staff in aid posts and rural health
centres in the eight provincial districts.
He said delivery of basic supplies to the health centres and aid posts
and transportation of staff to the day clinics had been difficult due to
lack of transport.
“With the new vehicles, most of the shut down health facilities would be
re-opened soon and normal restoration of service delivery would be
carried out immediately,” Mr Uyassi said.
He said the Malaria Surveillance and Maternal Health Clinics (MCH) that
came to a stop would be revived and the rural out reach programme would
further be enhanced.
He also said the other new vehicle for the technical services division
would help the engineers visit roads and bridges that need maintenance.
Mr Uyassi said the provincial government had allocated K6 million in
this year’s budget for the needed maintenance.
He said all roads would be upgraded in the next five years.
Provincial divisional advisers Ben Haili for health, Conrad Esoke for
education and deputy administrator Solomon Tato for technical division
received the vehicles respectively and thanked Mr Uyassi.
They vowed to use the vehicles in enhancing the delivery of services to
the people especially in rural areas.
 
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