PNG Society for Rural & Remote Health
PO Box 16 Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea pngruralsociety@gmail.com
Dr. Spencer Kimsen http://www.pngruralsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Invitation-to-2024-Rural-Heath-Speciality-Conference.mp4 Program Outline Download http://www.pngruralsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Symposium-2024-Program-Draft.docx.pdf
National Prosperity through Growing the Economy Click here to download pdf file. http://www.pngruralsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MTDP-IV-2023-2027_compressed.pdf
Join Dr Yohang as he reviews the good, not so good and areas we can do better in our UPNG Rural Placement Programs. Are we making the impact we are hoping for? Is there lasting change? Join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 986 4187 5606 Passcode: 680192
Recognising the immense contribution of Dr David Mills, the founder of the PNG Society for Rural and Remote Health as well the instigator plus engineer of the Masters in Rural Medicine (UPNG) program. As many gathered to farewell the Mills family at Kompiam on Saturday 26th November our present president reflects the following: Jimi district…
Situated in luscious Pomio District of East New Britain province the 28 bed Warangoi Rural Hospital has been undergoing some exciting changes for the better this year. July 2022 saw Warangoi Rural Hospital take on their first 5th year medical students from the University of Papua New Guinea for their rural attachment. Since Dr Micah…
This years meetings of the PNG Society for Rural and Remote Health are being devoted to the issue of “Encouraging and Supporting Careers in Rural Health”. Download the program here. Program 2015 Given the media coverage and social media debate this year on this important topic, we decided to make it the theme of our entire…
“Doctors Short!” Stating the obvious perhaps, but this was the screaming front page of the Post Courier on May 25th. Reviewing the current status of the medical workforce outside NCD, 49 of the 88 districts had no full time doctor present. This represented a population (using 2011 census data) of over 3.24 million people without…
This years Annual Medical Symposium, to be held at the Caritas Hall, East Boroko in Pt Moresby promises to see the debate on rural doctors pressed further. At Tuesday lunch, a formal debate will be held on the resolution “Training doctors to work in rural areas is likely to make NO significant difference to the health…