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ABOUT the Beneficiary – Arawa Health Centre
The Arawa Health Centre (AHC) was established with the help of development agencies after the 1993 Bougainville crisis. AHC serves a population of around 80,000. There are three wards with 40 beds in total. The centre is staffed by seven qualified nurses, one pharmacist, two orderlies and two dental therapists, with 28 community health workers. It has a laboratory (only capable of testing for malaria and other minor blood tests), TB ward, inpatients and outpatients clinics, obstetric facilities, dental clinic, and a basic surgery equipped with a small anaesthetic machine (the surgery is currently not used).
AHC does not have a functional x-ray facility and there are currently no doctors or midwives, no Head of Clinical Services, and no resident Health Extension Officer (although there are occasional visits by trainee Health Extension Officers). AHC currently offers only very limited health care and patients with any serious conditions are moved to Buka Hospital by road. The most common problem is maternal child health.
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PHOTO – A surgical team at Arawa Hospital, Bougainville, which MAANZ assisted with theatre supplied.
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A typical ward, with limited beds and bedding. Patients have to sleep on the wooden bases . Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah.
For lack of beds, patients some patients are forced to sleep on the floor.
A typical ward, with limited beds and bedding. Patients have to sleep on the wooden bases . Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah.
The Arawa Clinic Kitchen – where food is prepared for the patients. Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah.
The current cooker, with hot water urn ( the large pot ) where all water is boiled for patient consumption.
The Arawa Clinic Kitchen – where food is prepared for the patients. Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah.
Remains of Arawa Hospital. Photo courtesy of Aloysius Laukai News Journalist.
Food prepartion bench for patients.
The Arawa Clinic Kitchen – where food is prepared for the patients. Photo
Remains of matresses. The Arawa Clinic. Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah.
Remains of Arawa Hospital. Photo courtesy of Aloysius Laukai News Journalist.
Remains of Arawa Hospital. Photo courtesy of Aloysius Laukai News Journalist.
Remains of The Arawa Hospital . Photo courtesy of Aloysius Laukai News Journalist.
Ben Kinah in conversation with Mother of patient seen here.
“Anna from Irang village,up in the Mountains of Panguna District is being here, at Arawa Healht Clinic for three months now taking care of her son,who is paralysed after falling off a coconut tree. I asked how she is getting on. She voiced patients are sleeping on wooden beds, and we have to stuff the beds with cardboards to make it comfortable for our patients in pain. We even paying K10.for injections and drugs. Worse still,food rations are irregular and sometimes patients go hungry they bring their foodstuff and cook.”
Photo courtesy of Ben Kinah .