Greedy Zibe cuts K220 Million from Public Hospitals to build his Private Clinic
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Contrary to his public claims, Health Minister, Sasa Zibe, has cut K223 million in potential funding for provincial hospitals and medical staff housing in order to fund the Pacific Medical Centre.
A confidential Ministerial Briefing Paper leaked to this website show how Zibe personally intervened to amend a proposed funding request to the Chinese government to slash the money intended for “priority medical equipment” in provincial hospitals and instead insert a request for K230 million for his own pet project.
The potential funding that the Minister has personally ordered be cut includes:
* K81 million for the replacement of outdated and obsolete medical equipment across all Provincial hospitals including life support systems that are more than 10 years old.
* K17 million for the replacement of static plant like sterilizing units, oxygen plants, incinerators, sewerage systems, water supply systems and stand-by generators
* K124 million for staff housing for doctors, nurses and community health workers (professional staff who the Minister was told are having to live with relatives or in squatter settlements due to the lack of housing and affordable rents).
All this has been sacrificed by Minister Zibe so the government can go ahead with its much-critized private hospital facility outside Port Moresby that will be accessible to a tiny fraction of the country’s population
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Bloody Greedy PIG!
ReplyDeleteThis is the man who once challenged the corrupt Somare regime when Zibe was briefly minister of the Dept Enviroment and Conservation. He was sacked by Somare as a result of his bravery.
ReplyDeleteHe later learnt that to have power under Somare, you have to be a tea boy. Zibe has done wonderfully in his new role.