St. John Ambulance receives over 4000 false calls to its emergency number 111 every day which totals to roughly 28, 000 false calls in a week. This is dangerous as it blocks and hinders genuine calls from getting through to the emergency hotline. Chair of the National St. John Council Dame Jean Kekedo stated that false calls made are a waste of resources and puts not only the genuine callers’ lives at risk but also the ambulance officers who respond to those calls. “A false call recently resulted in an attack on the ambulance crew, resulting in thousands of kina…
Author: Aseneth WAIDE
Like hospitals and other emergency services, St John ambulance operations centre was in the normal swing of things – answering calls for help. Anticipating an increase in the number of emergency incidents during the holiday season, more emergency ambulance crews were rostered on duty to meet the demand over the long Christmas weekend. From Friday evening to Tuesday morning, 17 ambulances were on duty in Lae, Kokopo, Kupiano Bereina, and Port Moresby, responding to 370 emergency incidents. From Sunday evening to Tuesday morning, ambulance crews responded to 162 emergency calls during the St John Ambulance (SJA) Christmas operation. The distribution…
Trainee St John Ambulance nurse Cathy John was blessed to have a heart-warming experience of delivering a baby girl while she was on her first day of ride-along duty just three days away from Christmas. For Nurse Cathy who had previously worked in hospital settings, delivering a baby in a location other than a hospital was an entirely new and breathtaking experience. “This was my first time delivering a baby in the ambulance, and to do this on the first ride-along is an amazing experience, one that I will never forget in a very long time.” This extraordinary turn of…
The youth of Grandville Seventh-Day Adventist Church are gearing up for its PNG4CHRIST Fundraising Walkathon from Port Moresby to Kerema, KaIntiba, Menyamya, Lae Goroka, Simbu and Jiwaka, in order to support their fellow Jiwaka Adventist members. This initiative aims to raise funds to contribute towards the construction of a VIP main Centre in Minj, Jiwaka Province. Chairman of Fundraising Elder James Dat stated that they decided to raise more than what the initial cost was in order to contribute to other programs run by their fellow Adventists in Jiwaka. “The estimated cost was about K320, 000 but we decided to…
Health experts are urging Kiwis to put a Covid-19 booster shot on their Christmas list for the best chance to avoid the latest variant impacting their summer holidays. According to the Science Media Centre, modelling was suggesting that hospitalisations for the current Covid wave will peak this week – just days before Christmas Day. And while the newest variant JN.1 is picking up speed in New Zealand, stocks of antiviral Paxlovid are running out, it said. University of Canterbury’s Professor Michael Plank said JN.1 was likely the fastest growing variant seen this year, and could lengthen the time New Zealand…
Media can have a huge impact in terms of bringing truth to the masses, however for multiple reasons, oftentimes mainstream media and churches do not engage with one another. Sometimes churches have their own media outlets, or they only trust specific media outlets to bring their message to the masses; other times it could simply be a lack of knowledge in the media’s role in helping churches; or it could be church leaders having deep reverence towards God, hence they are cautious in giving out information to just anyone especially a message that comes from a divine source. Layman of…
SP Lager announced the winner of its Red Cap Promotion for the Southern Region this Tuesday, December 12th – which was Janet Algon. Ms. Algon was the lucky recipient of one of four 25-seater coaster buses. The promotion started in August and ran for three months ending on October 31st. Participants were required to collect six red promotional bottle caps and submit into an entry bin in order to go into the draw to win. Sales Manager for SP Brewery Matthew Green further elaborated on why this promotion was done. “This National Consumer Promotion (NCP) was aimed at retaining very…
Minister for Education, Dr Uke Kombra, OBE, reiterated the importance of the Government’s ‘No child left Behind’ policy when speaking at the Year 8 graduation ceremony of Ono Primary School in Usino, Madang Province on Thursday, December 7. “We must ensure that all children enter the education system at preparatory and complete Grade 12. No one in PNG must be left behind.” He added that there are a number of changes as a result of the implementation of this policy: · We have introduced the tuition fee policy. The Tuition fee policy helps to relieve parents off the burden of…
Peterson Mathius, a lawyer – a graduate from the University of Papua New Guinea – a person living with disability is an advocate for individuals like himself. He graduated in 2021 and was admitted in 2022. As a young man he wanted to pursue medicine but when he was in second year of his under-graduation degree, he was told by the medical faculty management that it will not be possible for him to pursue a career in medicine because it will ‘compromise’ the dignity of his patients because he would require an assistant all the time. Eventually, Mathius had to…
Recently, LiteHaus International, in collaboration with Niunet, donated 20 computers to St John Ambulance for ambulance education. SJA PNG is embracing digital platforms for learning, and we recognize that using technology to improve education is consistent with the philosophies of both LiteHaus International and Niunet. CEO of Niunet, David Valentine expressed great delight towards aiding SJA. “Niunet PNG has been assisting LiteHaus International in identifying recipients for its Pacific Digital Infrastructure Program, and it gives both of our companies’ great pleasure to be able to assist the St John Ambulance Training Academy with this computer donation.” “In addition to the…