KBK health centre opens

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The National, Thursday 24th November 2011

A RECENTLY completed health facility at the Enekuai relocation site in Kurumbukari, Usino-Bundi electorate, Madang, has started providing much needed medical help to the rural community.
The new health facility was constructed under Ramu NiCo’s Sustainable Economic Development Programme.
Ramu NiCo community affairs department manager at KBK, Charlie Hu confirmed the new health facility at Enekuai had been completed and community health workers were already attending to patients from area.
Enekuai is where villagers were relocated in 2008 to pave the way for mineral extraction to take place.
Thirty new houses were built by Ramu NiCo and are occupied by the villagers.
The Enekuai health facility is like a sub-health centre, and accommodates a small delivery room, a general ward with 10 beds, a store room, an office block, an out-patients section, toilet/shower block and stay-in rooms
for medical officers.
Cyril Tapasia, the community health worker employed by Ramu NiCo, said he was being helped by Joel Kop, a government community health worker.
The community health workers at Enekuai attend to between 20 and 30 patients daily.
But they said on occasions such as sporting events and LOA meetings at Enekuai, the number of patients increased.
Tapasia said the clinic received its medical supplies from Ramu NiCo and the provincial health department through Walium.
Kop said the supply of medical drugs they received were antibiotics, malaria depressants and pain relievers.
Patients are mostly from the Enekuai relocation site and neighbouring hamlets as well as employees of Ramu NiCo.
Work on the Enekuai SEDP projects started in March 2011 and covered the construction of the new clinic, a police post, LOA office building and an elementary school building.
Construction of the new buildings was carried out by Raibus Engineering, a business arm of umbrella company, Raibus Ltd.