Hospital needs CEO

THE Kundiawa general hospital is unable to make critical decisions because a permanent Chief executive officer has yet to be appointed, it had been claimed.
Acting chief executive officer Sr Orpah Tugo said the appointment was still pending with the appropriate authorities and that she had been acting in the capacity during the past 10 months.
She urged the authorities to speed up the decision which would assist the board in running the hospital.
Sr Tugo also told The National that the hospital needed more staff and more accommodation.
She explained that many people from Western Highlands were seeking treatment at the hospital instead of going to the Mt Hagen general hospital or the Kudjip Nazarene hospital.
She said she did not know the reasons for this.
She applauded the efforts and commitment of the board headed by Kundiawa-based businessman Gerald Philips which managed to secure a Bio-chemistry analyser machine for the hospital.
“Now we do not have to refer patients, particularly women diagnosed for cervical cancer, to other hospitals,” she said.
“However, we no longer have rural visits for the past three to four years due to lack of financial support from the Simbu provincial government.”