Headquarters Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) has been made aware of the incident involving drunk soldiers at the Port Moresby General Hospital on Sunday 18th of December 2022.
Those soldiers involved in this incident had caused damages to the country’s biggest referral hospital. The damages are worth thousands of Kina at the Accident and Emergency Department.
The PNG Defence Force does not condone such behaviour by soldiers in public.
The Chief of Defence Force has ordered an urgent investigation into this matter and to ensure those involved are dealt with under the Code of Military Discipline and appropriate actions taken to ensure no repetition of such ill-discipline behaviour occurs again.
PNGDF sincerely apologizes to the public for the inconveniences caused and the disruption to health services at the Accident and Emergency Department that may have taken place as result of the incident.