Pacific International Hospital opens new medical centre

AS part of the public-private partnership initiative in health care, the Pacific International Hospital (PIH) has expanded its services by opening a new medical centre in Waigani Central, Port Moresby.
The medical facility offers a one-stop shop for primary healthcare, providing services including a general practitioner, specialist for antenatal care and women’s health, child health and dental and eye care.
Prime Minister James Marape inaugurated the opening of the centre, saying that establishment of such facilities would ensure that people seek specialist treatment in the country, instead of raising funds to seek treatment overseas.
“In the country, we must be able to rise up through government owned provision of health services and medical care as well as giving room for private innovations and private sector to also grow with the country complementing government services in the health sector,” Marape said.
The centre also offers specialist aesthetic services and primary mental health services as well as in-house basic diagnostics laboratory, X-ray and ultrasound facility and a pharmacy.
PIH chairman Sir Moi Ave said the hospital was proof of success for the public-private partnership, especially in developing a multi-specialty hospital that offered advanced healthcare services previously unavailable in the country especially in cardiac and critical care medicine.