Managing health

NO one is capable of holistically managing health issues for Papua New Guinea year in and year out.
The same billion kina drug company has been monopolising the supply contracts for decades is a sign of systematic institutionalised corruption at all levels in the government system.
The general observation is that a good majority of highly paid local doctors spend an average minimum of two hours per day to attend to patients and get full pay for other private activities.
Much of the heavy lifting is done by nursing officers who receive just a fraction of the comparative pay benefits for long hours.
The local medical area drug stores cannot supply the backlog orders of supplies for over three months. Even when supplied, it is less or with the wrong items whenever it reaches the hospitals and clinics.
Patients are given prescriptions to buy drugs at pharmacy stores which they cannot afford, when there has been a free health policy for past seven years.
All facilities are run down. So much money is spent on venue hires for workshops and conferences with non-implementers attending to benefit from allowances.
Nothing is really going to arrest the health issues.
By policy PNG, needs to bring in at least one third of its nurses and doctors from abroad to balance the level of commitment to service delivery to patients as a start.

Observer NCD