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October 1st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged $64 million to improve health in Papua New Guinea.
On a visit to Moreguina village in PNG’s central province on Saturday, Mr Rudd said the package was part of an $80 million Asian Development Bank (ADB) health fund.
He also pledged additional funds to aid delivery of drugs to health centres across the country.
“A big challenge in PNG is health,” Mr Rudd told the villagers who had gathered at the health post to see him.
“Making sure little babies are born safer, making sure that when they are little kids they get vaccinations.”
“I understand the health problems in Moreguina.”
He said the ADB had launched an $80 million program to improve health and refurbish some 3,000 clinics and health centres across PNG.
Australia would provide half that funding.
He also said an additional $24 million would go towards delivery of medicines to those clinics.
“We want to boost the health of 1.2 million people in PNG,” Mr Rudd said.
Australia currently spends about $487 million on development assistance in PNG, which has a population of approximately 6.7 million.
Just 40 per cent of births in the 36-year-old nation are supervised, however in the district visited by Mr Rudd it is less than 20 per cent.
A sign at the front of the hospital in the district’s capital, Kupiano, reads “Women in labour must bring their own water,” said one Ausaid staffer.
Mr Rudd arrived to a hero’s welcome in Moreguina, about 150 kms from PNG’s capital, Port Moresby.
Locals flocked to a nearby football field to watch two Black Hawk helicopters carrying Mr Rudd, Australian consular officials and media, circle the village and land.
Mr Rudd was mobbed as he walked down muddy tracks from the impromptu landing strip to the local health centre.
There, he delivered large boxes with medical supplies such as antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis medication, anti-malaria drugs and medicines for new-newborns.
He also said he wanted to establish local level Rugby League and Netball competitions for children. PNG is the only country on earth where Rugby League is the national sport.
After Mr Rudd’s speech, Local Level Government manager Moiwo Bamoro said while he welcomed the foreign minister’s visit and the aid he brought with him, it would have little impact on the surrounding area.
“This health centre is accessible only to people who are near it,” he told AAP.
“Most of our health services in the rural provinces have closed down because of funding problems.
“We still have more to do.”
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