Prime Minister Hon. Peter O’Neill has announced in Parliament that his Government plans to set up a cardiac unit and a national cancer unit. The heart unit and cancer unit will go along for diagnoses and treatment of lifestyle diseases that are killing people.
Prime Minister Hon. Peter O’Neill did not say where these units will be built but acknowledged that people were dying from lifestyle diseases because they were consuming food and beverages that were not good for their health and were killing people. He was responding to a question directed at Health Minister Michael Malabag by Memyamya MP Benjamin Philip. Mr Malabag was not present in Parliament to answer the question. Mr Phillip had asked if the Health Minister or the Health Department had plans to investigate the early deaths of professionals. He said PNG was losing important professionals such as judges who were dying at the ages of 50 or 60. Prime Minister Hon. Peter O’Neill replied that health was individual person’s business and that just this week, the Public Service Minister Sir Puka Temu delivered the PM’s speech at 50th medical symposium in Goroka, assuring the medical fraternity that health was the Government’s top priority and it would continue to support that sector. The Prime Minister also said the Government had a fully funded National Health Plan that is being rolled out for the health care of all citizens. He said the plan is built on progress where renovations and maintenance are also been done on run down health facilities. Comments are closed.
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