Committee ends Health hearing


Basic Health care is a fundamental right for all Papua New Guineans and it must be provided to every citizen despite location, ethnicity, gender, age and race.

A Special Parliamentary Committee appointed by parliament early this year to find out the effectiveness of public sector reforms and service delivery concluded the health hearing on Wednesday.

Committee chairman and Goroka MP Bire Kimisopa expressed concerns of the country’s ignorance to provide basic health care in rural areas of Papua New Guinea.

The committee comprised of Kimisopa as chairman and committee members; Northern Governor Garry Juffa, Obura Wonenara MP Mehrra Kipefa, West New Britain Governor Sasindran Muthuvel, and Lawyer Roger Maguire as counsel assisting the committee.

The three day hearing summoned provincial health officers, doctors, the Department of Health, Department of Finance and other relevant authorities to find out the effectiveness of health service delivery in the country.

The Committee concluded that Health is a high priority sector that could be improved but prevalent policy issues, budget discrepancies, lack of cooperation and lack of resources are affecting the sector and the committee would prepare a detailed report to present to parliament on their findings.

 “We are not the people who determine what you get, we are the committee that want to expose the situation so that we can understand the problems that we have out there,” said Juffa.

 Muthuvel said public service is supposed to work with or without politicians or government but in PNG nothing seems to work well.

“In PNG before all those kiaps were able to go out to remote areas to deliver services but today with modern technology, we are still struggling to reach the unreached and it is a big challenge,” Added Muthuvel.

The committee after the health hearing requested the summoned health officers from Morobe and West New Britain Provinces to write out their province’s struggles and their recommendations in order for the committee to present to parliament.

National Department of Health Secretary Pascoe Kase agreed with the committee on the compilations of delivering health services across the country and requested that a joint effort by all stake holders.

“The system cannot succeed without cooperation, support and willingness by all our leaders across the government and civil society to join with the minister and the department to provide the best possible health service consistently across PNG,” Said Kase.

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