Post workers from our area: Locals

 PEOPLE of Boridi-Seregina in Koiari, Central, want health workers and teachers from the area posted there because outsiders do not stay long due to its remoteness.

A community member, who did not want to be named, said this during the opening of an aid post last week.

“We want our local people to be trained and posted to teach and work at our schools and aid posts,” the member said.

“Our people are most affected when outsiders leave, realising that the environment and climate here is not conducive for them.”

Hiri-Kairuku MP Peter Isoaimo said he would talk to the sister in charge at the St Gerard Veifa’a Nursing School to send two health trainees over and trainee teachers for schools there in 2016.

The aid post was funded by former Central governor Alphonse Moroi and the health authority in 2009 but has not been used because of lack of drugs and health workers.

They also have a rice milling machine funded by Moroi and asked Isoaimo to support their rice milling project.

Kokoda Development Authority chief executive officer James Enagi said it was the first time for a parliamentarian to visit Boridi-Seregina.