Standard designs for health facilities approved

POLITICIANS funding health facilities have been advised to get proper designs of aid posts and hospitals they intend to build in their electorates.
Chief medical officer and executive manager for medical standards Dr Goa Tau said the national health board had approved standard designs of aid posts and district hospitals to be built in rural areas. “We have facility designs from aid post level to district hospital level,” Tau said.
Tau said the types of buildings where health-care was provided were important because they contributed to the provision of health-care.
He said the designs were approved by the national health board. “We must have standard facilities so that the standard of health-care is maintained. That is what health-care is all about,” Tau said.
“This goes with right treatments, medicines and the right kind of services in the right kind of building.”
Tau said PNG was a developing country with limited funding capacity to construct expensive health facilities. He urged MPs who wished to fund the construction of aid posts and district hospitals to contact the Health Department and get the approved building designs.
“The Health Department now has a standard building design so our MPs can start contacting us to get the designs,” he said.