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The late Dr. Peter Are was originally from Gumine District of the Chimbu Province. He is one of the few consultant dentists in Papua New Guinea. After, completing his residency at Arawa General Hospital he moved to Mt Hagen General Hospital. He fell in love with the place & decided to make home there. For the last 26 years he has built one of the well established dental units in the country at Mt Hagen General Hospital, until his death on the 3^rd of November 2008. He went abroad to Australia for 2 years and has achieved a Masters Degree in Dental Public Health and then returned to Mt Hagen. Apart from that one of his outstanding achievements was the establishment of the National Doctors’ Association (NDA) with other senior colleagues. Papua New Guinean doctors are some of the smartest and hardest working doctors in the world but the least paid. With the efforts of the NDA, the government is eventually recognising their services.

Dr. Are has put in so much energy, time and in fact his entire life to fight for the rights of the country’s doctors and his immediate community, enduring all his private hardships in silence, masked by his everlasting smiling face. In the end he lost his wife, his house, his family, his rights and the allowances he fought for and ultimately his own life. He has died of myocardial infarct (heart attack), while discussing NDA matters, with his colleagues. Dr. Are is a true Papua New Guinean who gave up himself for the betterment of this country. Rest in peace Dr. Are and we salute you for your outstanding efforts and achievements.

Goroka General Hospital management are pleased to announce the launch of the new Hospital’s website.

A first for a PNG Hospital !!!

Goroka General Hospital is committed to embracing Information Technology (IT) as part of its overall strategic direction which is to enhance and improve the delivery of effective Health Services to people of the Eastern Highland’s Province of Papua New Guinea.

In addition to the commissioning of this website the Hospital has already implemented several other IT related projects over the past 18 months which include:

• Establishment up of a Business Resource Center (BRC) that has a state of the art IT Training Facility with 12 PC’s, where regular Computer Training is conducted and offered to Hospital staff.

• Deployment of approximately 50 PC’s and Laptops to various Hospital Departments.

• Availability of Internet Services (eg: WWW and Email) to staff through the Business Resources Center including access to the HINARI Online Subscription.

• Development and Programming of several Hospital Information Systems (HIS) including: Laboratory Results Application, Medical Stores Application, Attendance Register and various statistical reporting tools to assist Departments with their reporting requirements.

We are also very excited to announce that all of the Software and Systems deployed at the Hospital have been done using an Open Source Software (OSS) framework. This approach has saved the Hospital the high costs associated with the licensing of Proprietary Software Systems (eg: MIcrosoft).
This website will continue to evolve and we already have planned to launch the following web services in the near future:

• An online Forum for PNG Doctors to discuss and share relevant clinical information.

• A Member’s section which will give registered users access to additional information.

• Hospital news items.

• Links to useful Health Resources.

• Other features.

So stay tuned and in the meantime if you need to contact the Hospital you may do so by sending an email to: info@ggh.org.pg.