All medical and health practitioners of Western province have been advised yesterday through a memo from the Director Curative Health Services Dr. Mirriam Boga to get registered with the PNG Medical Health Board and Nursing Councils. CEO for Western Provincial Health Authority Dr. Niko Wuatai explained, they would like to confirm all the casual health nurses and health practitioners working at the hospital and carry out internal recruitment. “One of the recruitment conditions for us to do the internal recruitment is to get every staff registered first”. “On the same exercise we want to recruit additional staff and we are…
Author: Helen-Jennifer BUBUWAU
An ethnic clash that sparked between the Wabag’s and Tari’s two days ago just outside the Gerehu main market in Port Moresby has now being contained, according to Police Station Commander, Inspector Hanson Tokali. “A Tari man got into argument with another man from Wabag after he did not want to repay the money he borrowed from the Wabag man. They both exchanged punches and the situation escalated.” According to the station commander, both man were betel-nut sellers who carry out their daily sellings outside the Gerehu Main Market. The two men mobilized their tribesmen and a fight ensued opposite…
The Capital Touch Association will be hosting their pre- season games this Sunday 22nd January at the Sir John Guise stadium, Port Moresby. There are five divisions confirmed and they are Junior Boys/Girls Under 10 and 12, Junior under 18, Open mIx, Senior mix and Open men’s. According to Referee and Technical Development Officer Billy Karava, the games will start at 11am with matches for the Junior Under 10s and will conclude at 4:30pm with the open men’s games. “We have included Junior Under 10 and 12 for the first time in our competition as development program for this year…
The main rugby oval, Londolovit on Lihir Island will come alive on the 17th -19th of February, 2023 when the New Ireland Rugby Union hosts the Islanders 7’s tournament. New Ireland Rugby Union (NIRU) President Charlie Melachon has confirmed this and further stated that the tournament will see a variety of rugby clubs within New Ireland come together to participate and promote the spirit of rugby within the province. According to President Melachon, there are 6 registered clubs under NIRU that will participate in the tournament and the union is focusing on hosting the three-day tournament on Lihir to purposely…
More than 300 women have visited the Nazareth Center for Rehabilitation seeking counselling services and help with issues they are faced with in the community. According to Advocacy Coordinator and Laywoman Agnes Titus, the center has been given hope by by way of giving advice to women who need it and assisting the whole population of Bougainville including men. Mrs. Titus said it was disheartening to learn that most of the women clients were sexually abused in the villages as well as in their families. The Catholic ministry of sisters, Nazareth Congregation has been working in collaboration with International Women’s…
The cold weather around the Rabaul catchment area in East New Britain (ENB) has seen a lot of people diagnosed at the Rabaul Town Clinic with malaria. According to Health Extension officer Kala Mak, the hospital has recorded 120 cases of malaria so far since New Year. However, the good thing is that at this time the hospital is able to sustain its operation with enough staff providing treatment and enough medical drug supply in stock. “The availability of staff is fine, we have enough staff at the hospital”. “Our supply of drugs from the Area Medical store in Kokopo…
Kikori Hospital in the Gulf province is continuously receiving number of trauma cases at the hospital. According to the Clinical service Matron Ladi Kalama, more than five cases of trauma were reported to the hospital last week. “This was a continuous thing from last year where people used to come in with knife wounds”. Kalama said of the cases reported, the staffs had made referral of two cases to the Port Moresby General Hospital. Mr. Kalama explained that due to the same boundary shared with Southern Highland province, mostly those cases brought to the hospital were coming from the Kagua…
A PMV truck travelling to Kwikila in the Central Province overturned along the Boku inland road on Saturday resulting in two people being injured. Sister in charge at the Kwikila Health Center Anna Atop stated, the two people had spinal injuries and have been transported to the Port Moresby General Hospital yesterday. Sister Atop added, that the hospital is currently running low on its stock of drugs and from time to time the staff have been telling patients to buy their own medication from Pharmacies or visit the Port Moresby General Hospital. “Our supply for the festive season is out…
A one-day career expo was conducted on Lihir Island recently by Lihir Union of Students. The one-day expo was held on the 12th of January 2023 targeting students especially in secondary school level with the hope of preparing them for tertiary level. The Lihir Union of Students is made up of students from all tertiary institutions within the country, students from UPNG, DWU, UOG, IBS, Polytech, Teacher colleges and Nursing colleges all came together and held that one-day career expo on Lihir Island. Under the theme “Accelerate the Journey towards Lihir Destiny through the Development of Human Resource Capital”, the…
PNG top boxer John Ume is in gearing up to attend more competition this year to build his experience and bring more confidence to his career. “Having a feel in most international games would help my experience grow and this will help me in career building in Olympics, Oceania and Common Wealth games.” Mr. Ume who has been representing Papua New Guinea for eight years in a row said, the biggest challenge faced is the COVID- 19 pandemic, which had caused a lot of disturbances in terms closure of gyms and quarantine protocols. “Everything was hard for me, because I…