Mental facility gets assurance on water supply
BY GRACE AUKA SALMANG
THE Health Department has reassured the Laloki psychiatric hospital staff that a memorandum of agreement will be signed for work to begin on the piping and connection of the Eda Ranu-supplied water to the hospital.
Chief medical officer and health standards executive manager medical standards Dr Goa Tau said this when responding to the hospital staff at the hospital premises outside Port Moresby yesterday.
The hospital does not have proper safe and clean water for the past 19 years and had been using bore water, which is contaminated.
Despite a bit of tension between the staff and representatives from the Health Department, Dr Tau said meetings were underway for an agreement, possibly by next Friday, April 19.
He said until then, the hospital staff should continue to rehabilitate bore water.
However, staff told Dr Tau they did not want bore water because it was contaminated.
Dr Tau assured them that there was money for temporary water carting.
He told the hospital staff that he is the third party within the department and could not do much.
Clinical nursing supervisor Jeffrey Alphonse said the hospital would remain closed until an agreement was signed.
“We want this signing to take place by Friday at the hospital premises for all the staff to witness and reassure us that funding is available and work to begin by Eda Ranu,”Mr Alphonse said.
“The signing is set for Friday, April 19, which is Good Friday but we will still all gather at the hospital premises to witness it.”
“Until and unless this agreement is signed, we will open the hospital emergency services for emergency cases only up until Eda Ranu-supplied water is flowing into the hospital and staff houses.”
He said this is their stand and they are appealing to the Minister for Health and HIV/AIDS Sir Puka Temu and Health Secretary Pascoe Kase to intervene. Both could not be reached for comments because they are out of the country on duty
travel.
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