Three local doctors have graduated with Masters of Medicine in Rural Health from the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) with the help of the Australian Government through the Health Education & Clinical Services (HECS) Program. Gabriel Yohang, Trevor Kelebi and Felix Diaku were among the 1285 graduating students from UPNG. They become the first three doctors to graduate from the post-graduate degree programme. Yohang said as doctors, they had a goal to achieve – to provide the rural people access to quality health care. “This post – graduate degree programme based at the UPNG School of medicine and health services lasts four to six years and we made it,” Yohang said. “It is a very challenging programme to be taken up in the rural areas but we have somehow managed to do it and the graduation sums it all up,” he said. “As doctors we are motivated to work in rural areas because we feel that that is the where the majority of Papua New Guineans are people in the rural areas must have access to medical and health services.” Yohang is based at Mingende Rural Hospital in Chimbu. Kelebi’s at the Raihu Rural Hospital in Aitape Diaku is at the St Mary’s Vunapope in Kokopo.
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