New health authority making a difference

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The National,Tuesday March 8th, 2016

 The Western Highlands Provincial Health Authority (WHPHA) is the best performing Health Authority in PNG and must be protected from the demands of self-serving doctors.

Since attaining Authority status, the provincial hospital and other district health centers have transformed for the better. One only needs to pay a visit to the Hagen hospital to appreciate the transformations in terms of service delivery and infrastructural developments. 

That hospital has changed big time from what it used to be before. 

It would be a grave mistake for the Health Minister to succumb to the ill and self-serving demands of the protesting group because they are misled by one person who cannot accept that his contract expired and subsequently was advertised in line with proper management procedures. 

He could simply reapply for the same position but instead has opted to mobilized/brainwashed other to protest.

Baseless points alluding to lack of manpower and basic services maybe be true but these are common elsewhere in PNG and should not be used to discredit the current administration.

As a concerned member of the Hagen Open Electorate, I sincerely request our MP and other MPs in the province to step in and protect the WHPA and its management so that the wonderful changes occurring are not derailed by selfish people. 

It is the Western Highlands people’s prayer that the present administration of the hospital remains because we actually observed tangible developments occurring under its watch.

 

Mt Kiss, Via email