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Consider PoMGH in budget surplus
THE Government announced last month
that it achieved a massive budget surplus of over K1 billion.
How can it be called a budget surplus when the country’s premier
hospital, the Port Moresby General Hospital (PoMGH), is
virtually dysfunctional as a direct result of inadequate
Government funding?
It is slap in the face of the poor and the sick to hear that
“their Government” has a surplus budget.
Surplus? After spending in which priority areas?
Is it too much to ask all the 28 new ministers and the Prime
Minister to take 30 minutes of their “busy” time and pay a visit
to the PoMGH?
The hospital needs a complete upgrading, from supply of adequate
medical drugs, procurement of new and advanced medical
equipment, to recruitment of more specialist doctors, and many
more.
The PoMGH’s Accident and Emergency Ward is a complete disgrace.
Thousands of ordinary citizens continue to lose their lives at
this “Emergency Ward” while waiting for hours for treatment.
Does our National Parliament really deserve a K10 million
Government funding as announced recently at a time when the
PoMGH is in a desperate need of Government funding to save human
lives?
The PoMGH needs K25 million to K30 million and this is not too
difficult for the Government to look for it.
The sick people are human beings.
Who will give them hope to escape from their predicaments if our
national leadership has lost sight of reality?
Cali Cullo
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