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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
The winner of 2022 ICMDA Dignity and Right to Health Award is Dr David Mills. This achievement is nothing short of spectacular and we, the PNG Society for Rural and Remote Health, believe Dr Mills to be a very worthy recipient. 23 years ago David Mills with his wife Karina and their family moved to…
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 the Obura-Wonenara district the Kassam Orthopedic Services began offering prosthetic services in the country from April 2022. Since then they have helped 20 people in an ascending trend. Watch the transformation through the video on our Facebook page.https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=443540331174111 orhttps://fb.watch/g4MmbuQ4P0/ Ruben Herman, Prosthetist and Orthotist, with his wife Thea run the Kassam Orthopedic Services….
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…
In a bid to help our MMed Rural Medicine registrars prepare for their part 1 exams we have asked a few of them to share on topics relevant to their surgical assignments and upcoming exams. Brush up on your surgical infection knowledge, push our registrars to expand their learning or tune in to help your…
June 6-9th 2022 saw the Nazarene Health Ministries (NHM) reach out to the officers-in-charge of their 9 rural health centre facilities and bring them to home base for some long overdue investment in their professional medical knowledge. Per the words of Dr mark Crouch: What a privilege to take part in teaching and training for…
In a bid to continue to connect doctors and the entire cadre of health professionals serving in the rural areas of Papua New Guinea the society will on the first Thursday of each month host a virtual medical education seminar open to any medical professional. As all health workers know medicine is an ever evolving…
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…