District will get doctor stationed at hospital: Authority

By PETER WARI
Komo-MaRgarima in Hela will get a doctor stationed at Margarima hospital, according to the provincial health authority (PHA).
Last Saturday, dozens of people at the station celebrated the opening of a renovated public servant’s house which was funded by the local district development authority (DDA) at a cost of K65,000.
The Hela PHA will purchase furniture, electrical appliances and other household goods for the house.
Komo-Margarima DDA chief executive Mark Mendeai said they renovated a house at the police barracks for the district’s doctor to live adding that his office would also renovate other houses for public servants in Margarima.
“People in the district have been asking for a doctor for many years and the people will have one as soon as the house is ready,” he said. He said having a doctor in the district was good because people would no longer need to travel to Tari – the PMV fare from Margarima to the provincial capital is K10.
PHA director public health Dorris Anton commended the DDA for renovating a house in the barracks as this would ensure the doctor was in a safe and secure location.
Anton said the lack of adequate housing was one of the reasons doctors were reluctant to work in the district hospital and commended the DDA and local MP Manasseh Makiba for their effort is getting the house renovated and ready for use.
Anton also called on the people to respect the district’s healthcare workers, especially doctors, as they played a crucial role in the maintaining the health and wellbeing of the population.
She said awareness on the Covid-19 would be conducted in the district.