Aid post in need of staff

By GEORGINA KOREI
A FAMILY says an aid post they have built at a village in Kairuku-Hiri, Central, needs health workers.
Keith Iduhu, a lawyer from Gaire, said his family had built the aid post over the last 15 months with medical supplies from the Borneo Pacific Pharmaceuticals Ltd, but there were no health workers available to run the aid post.
“There is a real need for a medical officer to be stationed at the aid post to help provide basic services to the people of Delena and the neighbouring villages,” he said.
Iduhu said the Central health authority needed to look into posting a medical officer to Delena to run the new aid post.
He urged the locals at Delena to take care of the aid post so that it could serve them in treating the sick and injured and save lives.
“The people of Delena must take ownership and responsibility of the aid post so that it (the aid post) can take care of them,” he said.
Iduhu said the aid post was the start of what he had planned for Delena and they would come back to extend the facility in the near future.
“We will extend the aid post with a maternity ward for mothers and children because I know that this place has a high birth mortality rate,” he said.
Iduhu said they planned to give health officials their plans for extending the aid post into a health centre once a medical officer was stationed there.