STAFF GOING FINISH
| Dr Joseph Nale |
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Dr Joseph Nale is a physician in the IPTI project based in Maprik East Sepik Province. He worked with the project since November 2005 but will now leave the institute on June 15 this year. The IMR News had a short interview with the West New Britain doctor and this is what he said.
I’ve gained a lot of knowledge whilst working with the PNGIMR and I absolutely have no regrets at all to have made this short stint. Clinical medicine is fine but is incomplete without the research component.
The medical training in this country will be better-off with emphasis on the research component, otherwise, we are only end-users, using products that we never participated in its making and that is sadly the way we have been mentored.
The research work done in PNGIMR is of course, second to none and the class of people working for the institute is greater. I have much respect for all of you and keep up the excellent work.
The IMR ‘as-a-whole’ is the best. Medical scientists (current and intending), would kill to get here. This is the best scientific institution in the country.
It may be the only recognised medical research organisation in the country but there is no doubt what-so-ever, that this is the best place to work and to pursue a scientific career.
The Intermitten Preventive Treatment for Infants (IPTI) project which I had worked with is the most excellent way to go about in the fight against this dreadful disease (Malaria). I mean, have you had severe malaria; lately?
To think of the neonate and the little children in the arms of illiterate folks, I can’t even begin to describe the pathological process that a child with the severe form of the malaria disease goes through.
He/she is unable to eat and with a feeding tube down to the gut, oxygen catheters to supplement the atmospheric supply, just think of the enormous stress on the child and the parents, both psychological and physical.
If you prefer to await the invention and the formalities of the malaria vaccines, at the cost of lives, well, good luck.
Lastly, life can be unpredictable sometimes. One moment you think you are on top-of the world and the next moment you find yourself in a situation that questions your destination.
But instead of dwelling over ‘spilt milk’, one must realise that the whole world marches on and one must quickly make adaptations or be left behind.
To do this, one must always ponder on the positives of life and its many good pleasures that wait to be tapped.
The Institute is comprised of a multi-religious society and I respect each individual’s religious precepts.
But then again, for those of us who have a ‘Vague’ religious following, we must come to the realisation that we all have a pre-carved path, only divinely determined.
Once that path is taken and the destiny is reached, we must either succumb with a ‘close of the daylights’ or choose a different path. Circumstances are only designed to precipitate this course in life.
I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Chief, Professor Peter Siba and his management for the tremendous job they are doing.
I wish you all the very best.
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