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LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER JAMES MARAPE ON BEHALF OF CANCER PATIENTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Dear Prime Minister James Marape, I am writing this letter with tears streaming down my face. A pain I've felt for so long after losing people so close to me to this deadly disease - CANCER. After many years of writing about the plight of cancer patients, little or nothing has been done to build cancer treatment facilities in Papua New Guinea. Cancer has killed our mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers and even our close friends and colleagues. It continues to add more people to it's statistics everyday. The cost of getting treatment overseas has sky rocketed. An ordinary citizen cannot afford to raise up to even ten percent of treatment costs overseas. Thousands of kina have been spent on morphine drugs alone for pain relieve. Successive governments have promised us better testing and treatment facilities for cancer, yet we are waiting while our elite population are dying. These are our mothers, people who are working very hard to sustain families and build this nation. How many

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