New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan has fully recovered after he was diagnosed with acute food poisioning since Thursday 8th April.
His family physician, Dr John Tonar in a statement released confirmed that Sir J had gone into respite at his Huris home in Namatanai District and had sought adequate medical attention including specialist assessments and treatments.
“ The Honorable Governor had received both intravenous and oral medications over the course of his illness. He has recovered well,” said Dr Tonar.
Dr Tonar thanked the Governors immediate staff, local Doctors in both the Kavieng Provincial Hospital Dr Charles Penny and Dr George Linge and Namatanai district hospital Dr Tomar Ladi and Dr Mathew Oksap, external Doctors at the Port Moresby General Hospital , Cardiologiat Dr Wesong Boko and the Health Secretary Dr Liko Osbourne as well as Sir J’s family for their swift response to attending to one of the country’s last remaining founding fathers.
On Friday 16th April Sir J after fully recovering and regaining his strength back held a special Thankyou bung Kaikai at his home at Huris. While he had been lying on his sick bed locals and Church groups from the local United Church and Catholic congregations would converge outside his home praying, singing and fellowshipping.
“ While I was sick and weak I realized I am a lucky man. So fortunate to have you all showing concern and caring for me. Fortunate to have all these doctors attend to me with whatever treatment that they could offer. But it also made me think of all the less fortunate around the country, who would be taking care of them while they were freezing in the cold,” said Sir J.
Sir J indeed was back to his old self full of energy and life again as he spoke to his people, he also took the opportunity to update every one of the major changes to the New Ireland Government policies due to the diverting of Lihir Royalty payments straight to the Kavieng and Namatanai District Development Authority accounts after the two Open MPs used their Ministerial powers to badly advise the Prime Minister to influence the National Executive Council to make an illegal decision even though it was against the spirit of the Lihir Memorandum of Agreement.
Despite this Sir J is not wasting any time, on Sunday 18th April he made his way back to Kavieng in preparation for Mondays Provincial Executive Council meeting.
It was business as usual as he met with the Provincial Administrator Lamiller Pawut and Finance CEO Richard Andia to get a status report on the 2021 Provincial Budget which has been sitting with the Treasurer and Kavieng Open MP Ian Ling Stuckey since the 24th of December 2020, before meeting with Provincial Executive Council members to deal on matters affecting the province.
The PEC also noted today 19th April is Kina and Toea day, the day PNG officially gained its legal tender and also the day Sir J’s fourth born child Toea was born.
-Press Release-