Kapavore: Laloki needs to be properly funded, supported

MENTAL health is a concern in Papua New Guinea hence the country’s only medical centre serving patients, the Laloki Psychiatric Hospital, needs to be properly funded and supported in order to deliver services, an official says.
Minister for Health and HIV/AIDS Elias Kapavore visited the hospital outside of Port Moresby yesterday and announced that Dr Losavati Daugunu had been appointed as Laloki’s acting chief executive officer by the Mental Health Board.
Daugunu was the director medical services before her new role and served as acting CEO.
Kapavore said the Mental Health Act of 2015 was not fully implemented and there was an urgent need to do so.
He said there was no reason to continue to delay the implementation.
Kapavore said if there were sections of the act that needed to be amended but that could be done later.