Gunnedah’s Rod Browne has just returned from Papua New Guinea where he was part of a Rotary project to build a new clinic.
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Mr Browne said he travelled to Papua New Guinea as part of a Rotary project team from District 9650 to complete the clinic which is attached to the hospital.
“The clinic will be opened at the 20th anniversary of the hospital in September,” Mr Browne said.
“It will provide diagnostic and consultancy services for outpatients and act as an operational centre for community health programs on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.”
The hospital was built by the Rotary district in 1995 with funding from the Australian government.
While he was in Papua New Guinea, Mr Browne visited Kokoda residents Leon and Julia Simes, who have two pet tree kangaroos, also known as cuscuses.
He said the two were “cheeky little things” who are marsupials, like koalas.
Mr Browne and Leon and Julia Simes – and one of the tree kangaroos – had their photo taken with Gunnedah’s Project Koala badges.
