Tigunta gets a new aid post

THE age-old practice of carrying sick people on stretchers for long distances to access health services will be a thing of the past for the Tigunta people.
A new health post has been opened in their area to provide medical services at their doorstep.
The post was opened by Henganofi MP Ferao Orimyo on Tuesday for the Tigunta people in the Henganofi  district, Eastern Highlands.
They have for ages been carrying sick children and mothers for long distances to get medical services.
Women, children and men sadly dramatised how pregnant mothers, children and sick people died  while struggling to get to the Henganofi district health centre – the nearest health facility for them.
The people witnessing the opening of the new health facility shed tears of joy knowing that the hardship they had been facing for decades was no more.
“The new Tigunta community health post is a present for you under my leadership as Henganofi MP,” Orimyo said.
“The long walks carrying the sick on stretchers has not ended and mothers walking distance to give birth has now ended and sick children dying on the road has now ended.”