EMPLOYMENT opportunity for physiotherapy in the country is a real challenge that physiotherapists are facing, an official says. President of the Papua New Guinea Physiotherapy Association Paul Naau said that the country had more than 200 physiotherapists, however, majority “were unemployed”. “We have about 60 per cent of the total that are unemployed,” he said. “When a physiotherapist was qualified, they were on the market and there was nothing that would prevent them from securing a formal employment. “It is the system that is not engaging them into the workforce.” Naau said that Divine Word University was the only university that offered the physiotherapy course. “It is a four-year programme and around 16 to 20-plus students graduated every year,” he said.
“We have more physiotherapists, however, the percentage of formal employment is very low.” Naau said about 80 per cent of the graduates who were qualified to practice through the medical boards were still unemployed. “Twenty per cent try to engage themselves with other private practices and freelance,” he said. Naau said that the school produced the workforce but most of them were not engaged. He added that physiotherapists could work in different fields. “In the mining sectors but mostly in public services,” he said. Naau urged the Health Department to create more positions to cater for the large number of unemployed physiotherapists in the country. “The Health Department has to create more positions for physiotherapists as this is one of the major issues that they are facing currently,” he said. The National / PNG Education News Also read Comments are closed.
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