Tag: Port Moresby General Hospital
Port Moresby hospital morgue full – 257 bodies lie unclaimed
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Sixty four compartments of Papua New Guinea's main mortuary have been out of service since the festive season while...
Jokowi visit strengthens PNG ties but sidelines West Papua human rights
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea and Indonesia say the economic and social ties between them are closer than ever.
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Port...
31 infants in mass burial of unclaimed bodies in overcrowded PNG...
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
The bodies of Papua New Guinean 31 infants who died between March and July last year at Port Moresby...
PNG’s capital Port Moresby reaches crisis point over covid surge
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital has reached a crisis point as the covid-19 pandemic positivity rate surged drastically...
Port Moresby hospital emergency chief explains tragic oxygen death
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's main hospital emergency chief has clarified the tragic death of a female patient dying while trying to access...
114 Port Moresby Hospital staff test positive as PNG covid crisis...
By Christine Kildi in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital in the country, Port Moresby General (PMGH) is seeing a massive increase of...
PNG warned 680,000 covid vaccine doses needed to ‘save health system’
By Lulu Mark and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A medical academic has warned the Papua New Guinea government to immediately bring in more than...
Port Moresby hospital under strain with overcrowding, says doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's biggest hospital is straining to provide medical services to the growing population of the capital Port...
Port Moresby hospital scales down services due to covid breach
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby General Hospital is scaling down its services due to covid-19 cases being detected on...
PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in...
PNG faces ‘catastrophe’ over health if no crisis action taken, warns...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An unprecedented level of mismanagement of Papua New Guinea’s affairs since 2012 has caused serious health issues, including widespread suffering and...
Praise for PNG surgery team in 9 open heart operations
By Quintina Naime in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea National Doctors Association has congratulated the local medical team for successfully carrying out the open...
Amnesty International protests over ‘disgraceful shootings’ of PNG students
The shooting of students peacefully protesting in Port Moresby yesterday is a disgraceful attack on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression,...