Improved facility for Kainantu

WOMEN in Kainantu, Eastern Highlands, now have access to an improved health facility after the opening of a Well Women’s Clinic last month.
The facility was opened by Eastern Highlands Governor Simon Sia and Eastern Highlands Health Authority (EHPHA) chairman Chris Kopyoto.
It was built from a K1 million given to Kainantu Rural Hospital (KRH) by the Eastern Highlands government to improve the facility.
The Well Women’s Clinic was one of the improvements that the hospital had built to help women from the eastern end of the province.
Sia said Eastern Highlands government had plans to bring more improvement to Kainantu in terms of health, education, rural transport infrastructures and others.
“Health of the people is very important,” he said.
“I have big plans for Kainantu hospital after a brief tour.
“It is sad see the hospital requiring immediate improvement.
“But it depends on us working together as partners to deliver what is required at the hospital for our people.”
In the last six years, the hospital had operated without an x-ray machine and a cooler for the hospital morgue.
“These are crucial needs that must be addressed. As early as next year (2024), my government will install an x-ray machine at the hospital so that daily referrals to the main Goroka hospital can be reduced,” Sia said.
Kopyoto applauded the opening of the Well Women’s Clinic which, he said, would not only serve Kainantu, but also Obura-Wonenara, Henganofi, Okapa and women from Ramu in Madang and Markham in Morobe.