Problems at Gerehu Hospital

Letters

Gerehu Hospital, in Port Moresby, is not usually as you described it in The Weekender report in Friday’s newspaper,.
Every hospital should be run well to protect the safety of patients.
In a perfect world, a patient should be seen by a nurse for about five minutes but in this case her aunty was seen about two hours later and not within 15 minutes.
Saturday mornings are usually manned by one or two nurses only.
The story says five nurses were there. I don’t think that’s correct.
The pharmacy is running out of medicines all the time.
The fees meant to buy medicines are used by the management for administrative costs instead.
Too many vehicles are being hired for a clinic as small as that, and someone with an interest in this things should investigate.
Many patients are turned away because of the quota system.
There are other problems like doctors not being there at scheduled clinics and overtime not being paid to rostered non-clinical support staff.
Gerehu Hospital has some very serious problems.
The report that appeared last week was more like a public relations paid advert and it was misleading to the public.
Gerehu is partnering with Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) and international-standard care is given for TB patients only. That is where the real benefit of modern medicine is given to NCDC residents.

M. Maya
Boroko