PNG’s National Planning Minister Charles Abel has confirmed that because of budget constraints, funding for the Church-State Partnership Programme in 2016 has been cut to 3.2 million US dollars from about 8 million. A church representative says very little of last year’s allocation was paid out anyway. Church-led health services are already being strained at Read more
The PNG Health Department will provide the 172 unregistered church-run health facilities with funding assistance. Health Secretary Pascoe Kase says Kase said about 20% of the church-run institutions were not registered or recognised by the Government. “A lot of the health infrastructures were put in by the churches themselves many years ago even before the government Read more