PM: Govt to provide health gear

THE Government will ensure that doctors and health professionals have the right workplace and equipment to do their job, Prime Minister James Marape says.
Speaking at the presentation of K10 million funding support from the Kumul Petroleum Holdings Ltd (KPHL) to the Port Moresby General Hospital’s cancer centre project, Marape said this signalled the beginning of more health interventions nationwide.
“Life is hard working in a developing nation where there is expertise but no adequate workplace or resources,” he said.
“With no workplace and resources, sometimes your skills are put to redundancy.
“You work with a heart that is crying for the people because you know how to attend to them but you don’t have the workplace ambiance, so we sincerely apologise for the last 46 years that we have not given you the work place to work.
“To every doctor, nurses and health worker, let me give you the comfort of heart that your Government will put in place a plan that should ensure our health system is totally resuscitated for the better going into the future.”
Marape said this included the work environment and the capacity that was associated with providing efficient effective and modern health care.
Marape commended the country’s medical professionals for their efforts.
“We have some of the best doctors in the world and it’s just for the Government to ensure we step up and give them the work place environment and give them the capacity to operate safely.”
He said more Papua New Guineans were succumbing to lifestyle diseases and health care needed to be improved to treat and save lives and manage these illnesses.
Marape also commended KPHL for its support for PNG’s largest public hospital.