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HEALTH SERVICES IN MIRI DIVISION BEFORE 2015

20/03/2025

I was in Marudi in December 2024 on a visit by car from Miri. Gone are the days when we had to rely on the daily express from Kuala Baram to Marudi.
This photo is about a long boat in the mighty Baram River. When I was the Medical Officer of Health in 1988, I travelled up to Tutoh Apoh area, Long Lama and all the way to Lio Mato by boat. It was me and a few staff. I visited all the villages, such as Long Bemang, Long Bedian, Long Kevuk, Long Lama, Long Miri, Long Pillar, Long Naah, Long San, Long Jeeh, Long Moh and Lio Mato in this long boat. Very little has changed. Most evidently, the number of people in these villages is decreasing. Basic amenities are still lacking, but the mobile network connects nearly everyone in this region of Ulu Baram.
The photo signifies the difficulty for us to work to reach the people of Ulu Baram and also how difficult it was and still is for the people there to come to Marudi for treatment, welfare and social activities in Marudi.

09/02/2021

1986. Inside an express boat. This was the chief transport to marudi, long lama, Tinjar.

27/12/2020

Clinic at Long Banga
This clinic sits in between the original Saban village and a Kenyah village. Its service began in around 1990 and served by many Medical Assistants and Jururawat Masyarakats.

The image of the clinic is the back view of it.

27/12/2020

Long Banga Today
The very little known village of the past has caught up a little with the modern times. It is reachable by road, and faster by air. You can use your handphones. There are homestays; 24 hours electricity. I am not sure about treated water.

The village has grown from two villages, that was initially separated by a government clinic. There is a bridge access to the primary school, the old suspension bridge has been replaced, a community centre behind the clinic and many other small isolated settlements nearby.

There have been government functions, notably the Prime Minster visit in 2012 and also a National World Leprosy Day celebration in 2014.

20/12/2020

Long Banga (4)
A Primary School at Long Banga. Far, and remote, the school serves the children for the villages nearby. There are Penans, Sabans, Kenyahs and others too. Having completed the Primary school, the next secondary school will be at Bario (a whole 2 or 3 days walk of trekking). A few dedicated teachers live to tell their experience.

18/12/2020

Long Banga (3)
Long Banga has two villages: one village where the Saban lives and the other which nearer the airport is where the Kenyahs live.
There is a primary school, a government clinic, a church and some sundry shops.
The said primary school is away from the village. There is a playing field, a basketball court, teachers quarters. The school has boarding facilities but for those staying in Long Banga itself would have to cross the river by walking along a locally built suspension bridge. This has been replaced by a more modern suspension bridge. There is also a community hall for social gatherings.
The village has changed much in character and size. The logging road leading into the village has changed all that. Now in 2020, the village has increased in size. From a mere 500 people, there may be about 1000 or more people there.
Photos to follow

09/12/2020

Long Banga (2)
This is a view of the village taken in the mid 1980s. The people are entirely Saban, a small minority group. As in the photo, on the right is their small worshipping place. Further up at the background is a Primary School. This picture is taken from the clinic location.

There was hardly any access to the village at all, except by trekking and by small boats. The villages nearby include Long Lamai, Long Peluang and Long Beruang.

Today all the villages are reachable by road.

07/12/2020

Long Banga (1)
Long Banga is a remote village in Ulu Baram. From Miri, by air, it is about 203 kilometres. A small aircraft (Twin Otter) will take about 1 hour to reach here. It was unreachable by roads until around the year 2000, via a logging road.

By road, it will take a full 12 hours to reach Long Banga from Miri.

Photos (courtesy from google earth map) to show location and distance of Long Banga and the village itself.

17/11/2020

Lio Mato
This is a Kenyah village along Batang Baram. My work took me to many remote villages in Ulu Baram. To reach these remote villages requires motivation and effort. For my staff in Lio Mato, and also the school teachers, they know it would take them a full two days to reach Marudi by boat and two drums of petrol!
I had the privilege to visit Lio Mato by FDS. On a few occasions, by boat. The goals were to screen patients out there and to acknowledge our staff to see how they were coping.
The photo shows a Fort at the foreground and with the clinics in the centre and a school field. The longhouse, one of a few belian long houses destroyed by fire.
You may google Lio Mato in google map.

12/11/2020

Long Moh
This is a village upriver along Batang Baram. A Kenyah village, it is quite isolated. At one time, it could be only be reached by longboat from Long Jeeh or Lio Mato and other nearby villages.

Below is a photograph of Long Moh (1995). A primary school is on the lower left (not in picture). To go this school, one has to cross a suspension bridge about 10 metres long. The clinic is in the middle of the photo (blue roof). And the village is the rest.

The nights and morning are much colder compared to the other villages (due to the hilly surrounding).

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