The health workers’ service in East Timor National Police (PNTL) clinic is not maximal yet because the room is too narrow.
Chief of the clinic, inspector Abilio Aroujo said that there are six doctors working in this clinic and in one room there are three or four medical workers providing service for the patients.
“The clinic we have here is too narrow”, inspector Aroujo said in Caicoli, Dili.
He said that the doctors don’t feel comfortable with such condition while attending patients, consequently patients don’t feel safe when confessing their disease.
Inspector Abilio said that he has in 2013 and this year (2014) submitted proposal to the Commander of PNTL and Secretariat of State to take the problem into account.
“The government has just called me, but we are waiting when this clinic is going to be widened”.
He informed that the rooms are now only four, hence still divided for medicine, administration room and also for doctors
On the other hand, Maria Lurdes Bessa, Member of Parliament from commission B (for security, defense and foreign affairs) said that the case needs to be talked in the plenary during the State Budged discussion in order to be approved by the parliament.
“ The case is not only the size of the rooms but also the equipment, there should be comfortable condition for professional staffs to serve police members who are sick,” he said.
