Dr Petronia explains the importance of Risk Communications and Community Engagement with Diana, the challenges she and her colleagues face, and what the future holds for RCCE in the country....
Critical care nurse Christina was one of ten UK-Med members who flew to Papua New Guinea in October 2021 as part of an eight-week response on behalf of the UK Emergency Medical Team to help fight a second surge of COVID-19 cases across the country....
Barry, a retired headteacher, was a patient at Mt Hagen hospital in Papua New Guinea for nine weeks after he contracted COVID-19. Barry was known by many of the local health staff as he'd been their teacher at school, and he quickly developed a real...
A team of medics from UK-Med are travelling to Papua New Guinea in the Pacific on behalf of the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (EMT) to support health services under severe pressure, with many of the country’s doctors and nurses exhausted or becoming infected and unable...