All provinces need PHAs


TEN provinces with Provincial Health Authorities are doing better medically then provinces without PHA's.
A midterm review of the 10 Provincial Health Authorities this year revealed the effectiveness of PHAs.
Public hospitals and rural health facilities like aid post and health centers are better run in provinces with PHAs.
Districts in provinces without PHAs have a hard time trying to co-ordinate and run rural health facilities.

 Minister for Health and HIV-Aids, Sir Puka Temu said he is planning to set up PHAs in all provinces of the country according to the report.
“The government this term is going to facilitate the establishment of PHA throughout the country by June next year because I believe one system is better than two systems. Functional grants received by provinces are varied and not fixed because of two different systems that are existing. Our aim now is to have health functional grunts given through PHA’s where there is a CEO and Board that will look after Hospitals down to aid posts,” He said.
Member for Wabag Dr. Lino Tom has questioned the government weather there is a plan to assist in the recruitment of doctors in the country to meet the health needs.
Dr. Tom said the main reason for the difficulties in health delivery is that there are not enough doctors and at the same time they have not being appreciative enough in terms of their pay package.
“While PHA is a good initiative that is brought forward, many of the provinces with PHA’s have problems too. As people with medical background, the only way to improve health care in this country is to increase work force and evidence shows that all over the world. Not to buy many medical supplies, expensive facilities, we have to increase the health workforce and that is basically the problem for PNG,” he said.

Dr. Tom said many experienced doctors at UPNG have left for private practice because they are not well looked after and as a result medical students are now being thought doctors who are not on par in terms of knowledge.
He stressed that the government needs to look into the issues of taking good care of doctors to keep them so that they can teach students well in order to save PNG.

 

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