Paradise Private Hospital is older than this beautiful country Papua New Guinea, providing medical service to Papua New Guinean since 1959. The hospital celebrates its 65 th anniversary this morning with free medical checkups and live band performance and entertainment by staffs at the hospital in Port Moresby. The hospital have a very long history from where it started its operations in the pre-independence as an out-patient clinic to now.
Paradise Private Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr Robin Sios told Post-Courier Online that there were many transitions of the hospital to where it is today since its inceptions in the late 1950s. Dr Sios highlighted that the inception of the hospital was around the pre-independence, it started off as just a small out-patient clinic for families runed by an expatriate woman doctor named Dr. Shirley Clifton-Smith.
He said the hospital was took over from Dr Smith and run by another expatriate, Dr Allan Hutchinson in 1965, where he employed other doctors as Assistance. In 1979, Professor Dr Glen Mola bought the hospital and named it as “Dr. Mola’s Clinic” with five-bed maternity and labor ward and a small operating theatre and it become a household name throughout the nation.
Professor Mola after completing his studies in the United Kingdom in 1981, he expanded the facility into country’s first private hospital in 1984. He then forged Partnership with Dr Robin Sios and Dr. Misi Lam in 1993 and that is when the journey of building a.