Stop giving our people false hope

THE recent cancer saga and impetus purchase of medical equipment worth millions of kina
warrants me to air my views for and on behalf of many clinicians and patients in Papua New Guinea.
The purchase of new cobalt machine for cancer and announcements by several hospital managements in the country regarding purchasing of multimillion kina equipment like CT and MRI scanners lack judgment.
These are like having hardware but no software to operate these machines.
PNG does not have specialists radiation oncologist to operate the cobalt machine.
Nor do we have qualified and certified CT/MRI radiologists to maximise the use of these machines.
The false hope given to our people is sickening and is morally wrong.
The K15 million for the acute cancer plan is more than enough to train all cadres of cancer staff, radiologists for CT/MRI scanners and a  National Cancer Centre of PNG.
Training must be either in Europe and or the US.
Singapore, India and Asia remain suitable alternatives.
Health administrators and NDOH must not fool ordinary Papua New Guineans.

Leslie Bahn Kawa, Via email