Facilities Manager for Goroka General Hospital MR Timothy Kairi travelled to the United States last month to pay a factory visit and do hands training on a Medical Oxygen Generating Plant which the Hospital has purchased in collaboration with National Department of Health .

Goroka General Hospital is the first Hospital in the country which has gone ahead and is setting up the Medical Oxygen Generating Plant. Premier Bio – a Medical Engineering Company is the local agent in Papua New Guinea which will do the installation on behalf of the Air SEP Corporation of Buffalo in the United States.

Currently BOC is the only supplier of all Medical Oxygen and other medical gases in the country . Goroka General Hospital uses a tremendous amount of Medical Oxygen for the benefit of the patients every day. When there are natural disasters and/or landslides this can potentially cut off the highway from Lae for more than a week. In addition to the highway access, there is frequently a shortage of Oxygen supply which can impact this Hospital as well as other Hospitals in the Highlands Region.

The Hospital is expecting that the issue of much needed Medical Oxygen supply will now be resolved with the installation of this new Oxygen Generation plant.

Thank you,

Timothy Kairi
Facilities Manager