WAFO aids Goroka Hospital

SMALL surprises come in big containers.
That’s what the major hospital and schools in Eastern Highlands received this week – that’s to the Wantoks Australia Friendship Organisation (WAFO).
The Goroka Base Hospital — now renamed Eastern Highlands Provincial Hospital — received a container of medical equipments and supplies including toys for the children’s ward while school uniforms were delivered for various schools in the province.
WAFO made contact through Governor Malcolm Kela-Smith to deliver the goods.
Co-ordinator of the Friendship organisation — a nursing sister in Brisbane and a former resident of Goroka for 36 years – Ms Dianne Wardill said the hospitals in Brisbane would donate equipments to her home and when there was enough to ship to PNG, she would contact the Governor who then pays for the freight charges for the shipment of the container of equipment and would donate them to Goroka Hospital.
On hand to receive the equipments was the Director of Nursing Services at the Goroka Hospital – Ms Sonia Vano Korowi – who thanked Ms Wardill and her organisation in Brisbane for the donation of the equipments and the Governor for paying for the freight cost.
According to Ms Wardill, this is the third container of medical equipments and suppliers she has organised with the Governor to have it shipped to the country, especially to Goroka Hospital, she said, with the school uniforms – it would be distributed to selected schools in Eastern Highlands Province.