Private hospital aims to boost healthcare

By LULU MARK
A LEADING nationally-owned private hospital is committed to building up the health system to provide the best healthcare possible for the people of Papua New Guinea.
The Paradise Private Hospital (PPH) in Port Moresby opened its corporate medical lounge last Friday with the new edition aimed at enabling busy corporate executives and managers to make appointments for quick services.
Chief executive officer Dr Robin Sios said the lounge was among a number of developments the hospital had embarked on which included the establishment of a management system and improving its corporate division to complement their medical and clinical services divisions.
Sios said Paradise Hospital had started as a day out-patient clinic in 1959 and was then bought by Dr Glen Mola in 1979 and built into a small five-bed birthing.
Sios joined the practice in 1991 and became a partner.
“For 25 years, we operated like an outpatient but we have the capacity to be able to build it up to a hospital,” he said.
“My wife Janet and I took over in 2014 and built it into a smaller in-patient care unit.
“Now we are a 40-bed hospital.
“It now has operating theatre, laboratory, X-ray facility, intensive care unit (ICU) and birthing units which are the preferred units in Port Moresby that deliver up to 100 babies in a month.”
Sios said Paradise Hospital had humble beginnings but he and the management were committed to providing quality healthcare for everyone.
“Opening the corporate lounge marks another step forward for us to be able to make a difference and provide the additional benefits to patients that come here.”
Sios said Paradise Hospital had a partnership with the Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) and the University of Papua New Guinea School of Medicine and Health Science where specialists from the main hospital and the medical school worked at PPH as well.
“That is a public-private partnership that I am very proud of and I am happy that we have that establishment for our local specialist doctors.”