About Kikori

Some of you may know this already about Kikori as I have put it on my leaflet.

Kikori Hospital is located on the South west Peninsula of Papua New Guinea, near the capital city of Port Moresby (2hrs by plane). The region is marked by tropical forest, and the hospital is on the banks of a River. There are few roads, and most travel is by boat or by air. Average temperature is around 30C (86F) and varies from about 22 C (72F) to 40C (104F) with high humidity. An anthropologist who lived in Kikori in the early 1900s described Kikori as a place of great darkness where every conceivable evil practice was carried out. An early Scottish missionary and his English co-worker was cannabalised at Kikori in 1901.

Gulf Christian Services is an interdenominational evangelical mission which runs two hospitals and trains health care workers. Kikori Hospital is the larger of the two hospitals.
I will be the only doctor in an 80 bed rural district hospital, run by Gulf Christian Services but government owned with 41,000 patient episodes a year. There are about 250-300 deliveries a year and deal with whatever comes in. Emergencies can be sent to the capital 2hrs plane ride away (if they make it). The nursing staff see the vast majority of patients. Most people understand English and speak it with varying proficiency. The other two main languages are Pidgin and Motu.

According to the previous doctor :
--There is a phone but can be out of action for several months at a time--even when it works it cannot cope with even a plain text email
--beautiful river but has rather large, active crocodiles
--There is a generator which runs a couple of hours in the morning and again in the evening and goes off about 10pm
-- Strong dependence on sorcery and witchcraft and all the immoral activities that goes with it....