Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, says the Peoples National Congress (PNC) will deliver two new cancer specialist hospitals in the country if re-elected to form the Government.
He announced the commitment on NBC Radio as part of a major health infrastructure policy.
O’Neill said work will begin on the two cancer hospitals in Lae and Port Moresby beginning 2018.
He said the two cancer hospitals will be accompanied by two new Tuberculosis (TB) specialists Wards in Daru (Western Province) and Kerema (Gulf), seven dialysis hospitals, and improvements to the seven major hospitals in the country.
He said currently plans are already afoot for the development of hospitals in Central and Hela Province.
“We must immediately tack charge of building this over the next few years and that is a commitment that we have made,” said O’Neill.
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