Ainonk

First-ever health centre for remote village

Simbai is a remote high country part of Madang Province bordering Jiwaka, Western Highlands, Enga and East Sepik provinces.

Access is only by plane from Mt. Hagen and sometimes Madang. Project coordinator of the Anglican health centre, Morrison Wiam, said the new Kaironk Valley Health Centre is the first of such medical service in the area since 1975 and will serve over 12,000 people in that rugged part of Madang Province who are in dire need of basic health care services.