ANGAU General Hospital

ANGAU Hospital
Geography
Location	P.O. Box 457 Lae 411, Momase Region, Papua New Guinea
Coordinates	6°43′37″S 146°59′49″E
Links
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ANGAU Hospital, is a major hospital in Lae, Papua New Guinea.

Nomenclature

ANGAU stands for the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit which was a civil administration of Territory of Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea formed on 21 March 1942 during World War II. The civil administration of both Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea were replaced by an Australian Army military government and came under the control of ANGAU from February 1942 until the end of World War II.

History

The 2/7 Australian General Hospital (2/7 AGH) was established during World War 2 . The military base hospital was described as a 1200 bed base hospital with "many attractive gardens which are gay with native plants and shrubs" "MILITARY HOSPITAL AT LAE". Sunday_Mail_(Adelaide). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 28 July 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 20 September 2014. {{cite news}}: Text "The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954)" ignored (help).

A report to the United Nations reports on the increased in works budget to ₤680,756 which included the construction of the ANGAU Memorial Hospital as a replacement to the war time Lae base hospital .

The ANGAU Memorial hospital was officially opened on April 17 with accommodation for 412 in-patients and will provide specialist services to 620,000 people of the Sepik, Madang and Morobe provinces and cost ₤621,000 .

Medical research

A retrospective study was carried out on Ewing's sarcoma between 1973 and 1987 at the Cancer Treatment Centre of the hospital .

Redevelopment

The hospital had deteriorated over the last 20 years and has been infested with termites. The renovation of the hospital is a core condition of the asylum-seeker deal between Australia and PNG made on July 19. ANGAU has only 12 of 32 specialists it needs, and just 55 per cent of its 729 total staff. In February 2014, the Minister for Foreign Affair of Australia stated:

"The Australian Government has committed to redevelop the ANGAU Hospital. The original hospital is now 50 years old. It was built in 1964 and is run down, it has been attacked by termites over time, there is asbestos in the building, so we need to work very hard to lift the standards to something that is world class ".

Over K300 million has been invested in the redevelopment of Angau, including the master plan and 50 percent of the capital cost of renovation works. It will take 2 years to plan and design the new Angau hospital, while the major construction work will commence in 2016-17 .

Alumni

• 1964 (Medical Superintendent) James William McKAY, MBBS, DTM&H, DPH, Dip Ed, FRACGP
• 1952 - 1972 (Manager of the Artifical Limb Clinic) Arthur Kenneth (Ken) JONES MBE