Ambulance to help patients from Raicoast

By DOROTHY MARK
THE Raicoast district has introduced a mobile clinic that is to be based in Madang town to assist about 65,000 people in the district.
MP Peter Sapia presented an ambulance to Madang health director Markus Kachau saying the ambulance would assist patients and health programmes in the district.
“Raicoast is made up of land, sea and mountains and this ambulance is brought purposely to serve people in those areas,” he said. Sapia said the ambulance would be used to transport the sick from Raicoast, from the Madang Club Raicoast boat-stop to Modilon Hospital or assist those in Nahorawa and Astrolabe Bay LLG areas.
He asked Raicoast health programme manager Kamas Kuyan to get quotations for a sea ambulance that could provide a similar service for Raicoast people living along the coastline of the district.
Kachau thanked Sapia for making a public presentation to the provincial health department at their official yard and witnessed by health workers. Kachau said the ambulance now would be in the care of the health office and would only be used when there is need to assist patients from Raicoast or to conduct health programmes in parts of the district.
He said Health Secretary Pascoe Kase met him and Madang Governor Peter Yama yesterday to discuss issues on the provincial health authority.
According to Kachau, Madang will form a PHA (provincial health authority) next month to manage the whole health operation in the province.