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Finally, Angau hospital’s cancer facility to be operational in October


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Finally, Angau hospital’s cancer facility to be operational in October

PORT MORESBY: Lae’s Angau Memorial Hospital cancer treatment facility or unit is expected to cost up to K75 million and should be fully operational by the end of October.

This comes after Prime Minister James Marape told the health , finance and planning secretaries last week to get the facility up and running soonest or be prepared to lose their job. (Read this for context: https://pngcybermonitor.blogspot.com/2019/07/heads-to-roll-if-png-secretaries-fail.html - Heads to roll if PNG secretaries fail to get cancer unit up and running)

Marape had given the three secretaries the ultimatum to make it happen for the years of much talked-about cancer unit before he left for his first official visit to Australia as the 8th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.

PNG Cyber Monitor produces below details on how the cancer facility is being realised as reported by The National:

New cancer facility expected to cost K75mil

The NationalNational
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ESTABLISHING a new cancer treatment facility in Lae is expected to cost up to K75 million which is more than what the Government is allocating, an official says.
Morobe health authority board chairman David Wissink said the Kumul Petroleum Holdings Ltd (KPHL) was keen to support cancer treatment services in Lae.
“I have met with KPHL representatives and thanked them for their interest in supporting cancer treatment services,” he said.
“We do not need funding to refurbish the current facility but we will be counting on them (KPHL) and other partners when the new facility is established to cost between K50 million and K75 million.”
He said the Government had allocated “far short” of that amount.
Angau Memorial Hospital acting chief executive officer Grant Muddle is handling the planning for the Morobe cancer unit. It is no longer called the PNG National Cancer Centre which used to be “remotely” controlled by the Health Department in Port Moresby.
Wissink said Minister for Health and HIV-AIDS Elias Kapavore had handed over the cancer centre to the Morobe health authority six weeks ago.
He said Muddle was drawing up a plan to restore cancer services which was endorsed by Kapavore.
It includes assessing old equipment and acquiring a new cobalt source.
“At the same time we are about to renovate the present cancer facility, employ a radiation oncologist and source chemotherapy drugs,” Wissink said.
“If all goes well with the assessment and sourcing of cobalt, the Morobe cancer unit should be fully operational by the end of October.”

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