The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay (QBR) completed its visit to Papua New Guinea, the 31st country out of the 72 Commonwealth nations and territories it is visiting. The Baton was taken to Wewak on Saturday, 29th of January and was officially welcomed by, PNG Commonwealth Games Association President and Honorary Life Member of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Sir John Dawanincura, East Sepik Governor Hon. Allan Bird and the British High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea His Excellency, Keith Scott. The Baton spent three (3) days in the country and will leave our shores on Tuesday 1st February 2022. During…
Author: Rolland BANABA
The St John Ambulance have temporarily suspended their services in Kundiawa, Chimbu Province following an attack on one of their Ambulances. CEO of St John Matt Cannon said the incident happened last week Thursday at the Sipagkul village in the Gumine District while it was responding to a severely injured individual in the area. “As the ambulance approached Sipagkul village, they had people throwing stones and wielding offensive weapons.” “We don’t understand why they were acting hostile towards an ambulance.” “A rock made contact with one of the side windows of the ambulance, smashing the window and causing damage to…
This is Joe Mitakaiva from Gulf province who is one of the many young men taken under the care of the City Mission PNG. 27 years old Joe resides at Vadavada settlement and has been involved in all kinds of criminal activities at an early age. After learning of City Mission PNG and the good work they do to empower youths from some of his friends who came through the programs provided by the organization, Joe decided he needed a change in the way he was living his life and turned to City Mission for help. City Mission PNG is…
The St John Ambulance Service was out in full force during the new year celebrations with 6 ambulance units on road and more than 28 ambulance officers, paramedics and clinical crews on duty from 6pm to 6am at the Ambulance Headquarters 3mile. A total of 36 cases and incidents were attended to across the city by ambulance personnel and paramedics. Over half of these were trauma cases involving alcohol related incidents of violence including a number of stabbings. 84% of the cases that St John attended on New year’s eve were all related to trauma with majority of the incidents…
Nine children have been rushed to the Port Moresby General Hospital by a St John Ambulance an hour ago following a car accident today at the popular accident hotspot – the Waigani Boulevard traffic light intersection (Somare Circuit). According to the CEO for St John Matt Cannon, one child is in a very critical condition while others suffered injuries to some extreme. A double cab utility vehicle carrying a group of children back from a village in the Central province swerved and bumped into another vehicle. The children were ejected from the vehicle and thrown all over the place when…
Out of the 26,544 grade 12 students that sat for this year’s National Examination, only 9852 students made it through and they were selected to higher learning institutions around the country. This was revealed today following the official launching of the Grade 12 online Selection, officiated by the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science (DHERST) and Technology, Mr Wesley Raminai. Out of the 16,600 students that missed out, about 5319 students are likely to secure a space at any of the DHERST institutions given the admission quota that still needs to be filled up. The Acting Secretary for DHERST Dr…
Sister in Charge for the Gordons Clinic Sr Delma Hombunaka has called upon the National Department of Health (NDOH) to reconsider their decision and allow the Nurse Stations to remain open. She made this call following a circular released by the NDOH giving the Nurse Stations 14 days to close down. Sr Delma said the drug shortage issue in hospitals and clinics is an ongoing issue with limited staff over the past few years and these burdens are somewhat eased when there are Nurse Stations to share the load. “We have run out of antibiotics drugs and other essential drugs…
More than 250,000 people that have accessed the City Pharmacy (CPL) Nurse stations since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic will be greatly affected with the recent directive from the National Department of Health (NDOH) to close up all Nurse Stations throughout the country. Founder of CPL Group Sir Mahesh Patel revealed this when questioning the Health Department’s motive in closing the Nurse Stations. Sir Mahesh said there was no proper dialogue between the NDOH and the CPL Group before coming to this decision which leaves the question as to what the reasons are behind closing down a service that…
63 unclaimed bodies at the Port Moresby General Hospital mortuary will be buried today in a mass burial. Among the bodies are nine children, 54 adults and 11 body parts. These bodies are from the month of March and April which have been put on notice for relatives to collect, however only a few of them were claimed by relatives. Director for Medical Services at the Port Moresby General Hospital Dr Kone Sobi said it’s unfortunate that a mass burial has to take place especially in a Melanesian country where we bury our own. “It’s not our Melanesian way when…
Over 18,000 grade 12 students who sat for the National Examination this year will miss out on selections for Tertiary level of education. The Acting secretary for the Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (DHERST) Dr Francis Hualupmomi confirmed that 29,463 students sat for this year’s national exam, however only 11, 000 can be accommodated at the Tertiary level. The existing tertiary institutions can only take up to 11,000 students and this has been the case for the past years with so many grade 12 students with good marks missing out on the career of study they chose.…