Hanga Dispensary Becomes a Health Center

A long waited request, finally, Hanga dispensary has been raised to a status of Health Center last October. With the title it will be allowed to legally offer more services which dispensaries are not permitted to offer. The Health Center for example will be able to offer minor surgeries done either by resident or visiting surgeons. Good news for areas around Hanga village is that now women with complications during delivering babies will not need to be referred or transferred to bigger hospitals. Besides many people around Hanga will not have to incur expenses for services that formally were not available at the dispensary. Now that Hanga dispensary is a Health Center it is necessary that it has to have surgery unit. Thanks to benefactors from Italy construction is in progress. Bricks, sand, gravel, are at the site of construction and the foundation of the building has been dug ready to begin building (see photos below). Frater Lucius and Frater Josephat at site.

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Another event at the dispensary is the welcoming of seven student nurses from Peramiho hospital (about 70 km from Hanga). They are doing their field experience for a month. You can see them in the photos below.