Planning for cancer unit

 By JAMES APA GUMUNO
CHIMBU mothers who usually travel to Lae to seek cancer treatment will have the same treatment available at their doorstep.
A new chemotherapy unit has been built at the Kundiawa Hospital.
Chief executive officer Mathew Kaluvia said the new unit was a community initiative project.
Kaluvia said the Bank South Pacific branch in the province provided K20,000 while the hospital allocated K50,000.
“I want to thank BSP management for helping us fund the new building,” he said.
He said the carpenters were now putting the last touches to the building by painting inside and outside.
Kaluvia said they would install the necessary equipment once the building was completed.
He said this would be a great relief to the mothers who used to travel long distances to Lae and other centres.
Kaluvia said specialist cancer doctor Dr John Niblett based in Lae had been asked to visit the hospital and see the patients from time to time.
They will provide accommodation for Niblett while he is in Kundiawa
The hospital is planning a biogas project.
The hospital is talking to a Dutch national living in Madang, who is a specialist in converting waste into biogas, to do a feasibility study.
He said the biogas project would save the hospital a lot of money.