Goroka hospital is critically ill

 THIS week’s news outbreak of mass resignation of nearly 200 nurses and 20 doctors is just the tip of the ice berg.

Eastern Highlands Provincial Health Authority (EHPHA) for the last eight months, has been keeping a low key measure on everything and denying there was nothing wrong. 

EHPHA has even poised relentlessly at anyone trying to impede its course that it is transparent, just and fair to every stakeholders and the general public. EHPHA assumes it’s doing a proficient and excellent job through its vibrant make up of so called high profile think tanks.

Again with this current dilemma, it has made numerous attempts and effort to contain and refute the mass resignation phenomenon as a minor incident by doctors and nurses fostering better working conditions, pay rise and other minor issues of no importance. This is what they have been uttering to the media and general public that everything is being formally addressed and rectification process.

The mass resignation in fact is like a distress call embodiment as a flare being shot upwards in a very dark, windy and stormy night to alert rescue. 

The flare sums up these points: It pinpoints the survivors’ location and directs the rescuer to them, without the flare, the rescue will never happen and the rescuer will never know that there was a survivor. 

If the basic medical and administrative functions and services were still taken care of, and patients and emergency cases were being pursued by a skeletal staff, then why should professional people like nurses and doctors start walking out of their jobs?

To the patriotic act of nurses and doctors who stepped out by resigning and took their bold stand to shout it out and herald the warning of the deadly disease, you’re champions of  EHPHA and Goroka hospital’s next era of  good governance in years to come. 

Hospital watcher

Goroka