Authority suspends Menyamya health centre

National

By BRADLEY MARIORI
THE Menyamya Health Centre has been suspended from operating after an inspection in June failed most of its facilities and health and safety practice.
Major problems were found with the centre’s water supply, rubbish bins, toilets, administration building, the hospital building two which housed the outpatient, laboratory, sexually-transmitted disease and tuberculosis wards, inpatients and office building, minor theatre, labour ward, blood analysis clinic building and nutrition and tool shed building.
The environmental health inspection was carried out on the facilities’ infrastructure and surrounding area by district environmental health officer Rei Tupo and a report was presented to the public health directorate of the Morobe health authority.
“The health facility has been without reliable and effective water supply system for more than a decade,” Tupo stated in his report.
“There is no proper rubbish bin provided and as a result, health officers carelessly dispose of medical and other wastes into surrounding sites, posing risks to the public.
“The facility has been without proper toilets for decades.
“The administration building has been without toilets for decades, with no water supply and louvre blades and fly wires removed.
“The labour ward and minor theatre were suspended indefinitely but no improvement has been done to date.”
Tupo recommended that a new, permanent ablution block be built with two or three toilets each for females and male patients.