Across Papua New Guinea, health facilities face increasing numbers of patients while dealing with understaffing and insufficient medical supplies. In more remote regions, this is exacerbated by a lack of reliable electricity and safe water. Without these basic services, it becomes difficult for clinics to provide care throughout the night, power critical equipment, and access safe water for health and hygiene.
These clinics regularly encounter preventable problems due to insufficient supplies for maintenance or medical assistance. Broken water pumps lead to water insecurity, and a lack of maintenance training among staff means equipment doesn’t get fixed. Similarly, insufficient medical supplies causes clinics to refer patients to hospitals that are much further away, which patients often cannot afford to travel to. These are just some of the issues medical staff in PNG face daily.
Anglican Missions has been working alongside the Diocese of Waiapu in Aotearoa and the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (ACPNG) to connect with two different health facilities in Papua New Guinea. Both facilities are in great need of infrastructure upgrades and maintenance training.
This project seeks to meet those needs by repairing broken water pumps and tanks, fixing damaged latrines, upgrading generators and electricity supply, providing needed medical equipment, and working with Parishes to enhance local capacity and disaster preparedness.
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Movi Health Center, located in Siane in the Eastern highland Province, is a small clinic that serves approximately 27 rural mountain communities in the Aipo Tongo Diocese. The clinic is a vital lifeline to around 6,000 people, as access to government health services is extremely limited in this region.
The clinic is operated by extremely committed local staff, however they currently lack access to water, power, and basic medical supplies. this means that services cannot be administered during the night, and that nurses have to prioritise care based on power and equipment availability.
Katereda (St. Margaret’s) hospital, located in Oro Bay in the Popondetta Diocese, is a long-established Anglican facility serving both urban and rural catchments. It serves approximately 25,000 people across 6 different villages through both outpatient and maternal health services.
While the hospital is currently helping thousands of people, it is also dealing with broken water systems, ageing infrastructure, intermittent electricity, insufficient safe water, and shortages of essential equipment and consumables.
