29 September 2022
It was reported in the Solomon Islands media in the past few days that the Solomon Ports Authority will be financing Honiara’s first set of traffic lights and other items of road equipment and signs in order to assist with flow of urban traffic.
I am appreciative of the SPA initiative and I feel sure many road users, especially daily motorists, often frustrated by the city road congestion will agree with me.
While expressing my thanks to the SIPA , I would hope the authority could be encouraged to not only halt the flow of traffic on the roads with traffic signals that alternate from green to amber and to red, indicating stop, but to fund and supply the National Referral Hospital (NRH) Cancer Unit with one or more mammogram machines to facilitate the screening of women for breast cancer.
A breast scanning mammogram machine could indicate a warning of the early stages of breast cancer and give a sufferer a much better chance of getting treatment and making a recovery.
A mammogram machine is the equivalent of a red light in my view and has priority again in my opinion to curb the incidence of breast cancer which, until now, seems to have something of a green light to continue to trouble many women throughout the Solomon Islands.
Please SIPA give some thought to a balanced highway aiding medical help.
Yours sincerely
Frank Short
