Unlike people living within NCD, patients in the Central Province, East New Britain, and Morobe wait twice as long for an ambulance. St John Ambulance, the emergency ambulance service in Papua New Guinea, has an urgent need for more staff at ambulance stations in these provinces. According to the latest statistics, patients in Central Province, East New Britain, and Morobe are waiting twice as long for an ambulance compared to those in NCD. The lack of adequate ambulance stations and trained personnel in these regions is a major concern, especially during emergencies. The longer response times mean that patients are…
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Broadcasting rights for the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands will focus on member countries rather than an individual company. Pacific Games Council Chief Executive Officer Andrew Minogue told RNZ Pacific the Pacific Games Organising Committee would produce the programmes and have the selected broadcasters share that in their respective countries. “We have basically settled on a model that is like the traditional model that we’ve employed in previous Games where the Organising Committee will sort of put it all together in-house and then contract with different regional broadcasters, for example, Fiji TV in Fiji or France Television for the French territories,” Minogue revealed.…
Warriors five-eighth Te Maire Martin is set to miss the next eight weeks of the season after scans confirmed he fractured his left fibula in the Round 6 loss to the Knights. The club confirmed Martin’s diagnosis on Tuesday, after he was forced from the field in the 46th minute after suffering the injury while attempting to score a try. Warriors hooker Wayde Egan will miss the side’s clash against the Cowboys under concussion protocols. Meanwhile, the Knights and Wests Tigers have confirmed star players Jayden Brailey and Adam Doueihi will miss the remainder of the 2023 season respectively after suffering ACL injuries in Round 6. Source:…
Newcastle have fended off a second consecutive Warriors comeback to run in an impressive 34-24 victory at McDonald Jones Stadium on Sunday night. The Knights had a 22-6 lead after running in four first half tries but like last week in their win over Cronulla, the Warriors showed fight to deliver a scare for the Novocastrians after the break. The visitors got to within four points after tries to Adam Pompey and Edward Kosi reduced the deficit in the second half but a cheeky try to Kurt Mann from close range and double to powerhouse winger Greg Marzhew got the…
Responding swiftly to genuine emergencies is what the officers at Saint John Ambulance (SJA) do best. As busy as the Eater period can get, the nights can be a handful with callers calling in to seek for ambulance transportation to the hospitals. Ambulance officers attended to cases all over the city all of last night to dawn, including four cases with one patient experiencing Shortness of Breath (SOB) case, a trauma case, a severe sour throat case and a Respiratory Viral Infections (RVI) case that can be associated with a wide range of clinical manifestations. Despite with only six ambulances…
The Warangoi Rural Hospital in the East New Britain (ENB) province has reported a quiet Easter weekend so far with no major cases being reported at the hospital. The Sister-in-Charge, Rosemary Sylvester, said the hospital was very quiet and they only got one admission at their labor ward. The lady gave birth to a healthy baby girl that weighed 3.6kg. “Apart from our Good Friday baby girl that was delivered, no reports of any incidents or major incidents that were reported since yesterday. It was basically quiet in the hospital.” Sister Sylvester said, they only received one new admission who…
While many throughout the nation take this time to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this long Easter weekend, Saint John Ambulance (SJA) will be at service throughout the Easter period to provide emergency services for those in need. SJA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Matt Cannon said his team will be on the road twenty-four-seven to provide emergency services to those in need. He is also appealing to the general public to keep safe and healthy at this time, especially during this time of heavy rains experienced in parts of the country. “Recent rains have brought with them…
“We have to create this type of panel discussion so that we give them (the people) factual and substantial information so that they may be aware and conscious about the things that are going on in the country.” That’s from the University of Papua New Guinea President of the 2023 Student Representative Council Luther Kising during the opening of the important dialogue and panel discussion between Prime Minister James Marape and Opposition Leader Joseph Lelang, who were in the hot seats to discuss important issues affecting the country. Presidents from Tertiary institutions in the country joined in on the discussion…
The nib Newcastle Knights, in conjunction with independent concussion consultants, have reviewed all available information and have approved for Kalyn Ponga to return to rugby league. Ponga recently flew to Vancouver, Canada for additional clinical and advanced neurophysiological assessment, with the results indicating the Knights co-captain is ready to resume his return to performance program. “We are comfortable with the objective evidence from our independent testing, indicating normalisation of his cognitive function,” nib Newcastle Knights Director of Football Peter Parr said. “Kalyn has recovered well from his recent concussion, however he has had limited specific training due toO the amount…
Storm hooker Harry Grant says Roosters counterpart Brandon Smith was uncharacteristically quiet all week ahead of his former teammate’s return to AAMI Park on Thursday night. The former AAMI Park crowd favourite copped boos and jeers from Storm fans – none bigger than when he knocked it on out of dummy-half during the second half – in his first visit to AAMI Park as a Rooster as the Tricolours went down to Melbourne. Grant revealed to newspapers this week that Smith – when still at Melbourne – used to send fired-up photos of man-mountain teammate Nelson Asofa-Solomona to opponents he…