The ICRC together with PNG Red Cross Society (PNGRCS) is working in PNG to support health infrastructure, places of detention and ensure key COVID-19 prevention and response measures reach even the most remote of communities.
Operational update on Papua New Guinea: April - December 2020
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Meeting immediate needs and reaching remote communities for COVID-19 prevention and response
In Papua New Guinea, the spread of COVID-19 is rapidly spiralling. Efforts to contain the pandemic are either neglected or devalued, while health and prison systems are under enormous pressure to meet immediate needs.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with PNG Red Cross Society (PNGRCS) is working in PNG to support health infrastructure, places of detention and ensure key COVID-19 prevention and response measures reach even the most remote of communities.
Support in places of detention
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30 April, 2021, 11:45 am
A health worker takes a swab from a man at a Covid-19 testing centre in Port Moresby. Rates of testing in PNG are incredibly low. Photo: AFP or licensors
Doctors in Papua New Guinea say the coronavirus crisis is only getting worse as some hospitals shut their doors to patients and others struggle without supplies as basic as gloves.
Health officials and doctors interviewed by RNZ Pacific have described a health system teetering on the brink of collapse and a country that has no real grasp of just how widespread the virus really is.
Officially, the country has recorded 10,915 cases of Covid-19 and 107 deaths, according to government figures released on Wednesday night.
Doctors in Papua New Guinea say the coronavirus crisis is only getting worse as some hospitals shut their doors to patients and others struggle without supplies as basic as gloves.
A health worker takes a swab from a man at a Covid-19 testing centre in Port Moresby. Rates of testing in PNG are incredibly low.
Photo: AFP or licensors
Health officials and doctors interviewed by RNZ Pacific have described a health system teetering on the brink of collapse and a country that has no real grasp of just how widespread the virus really is.
Officially, the country has recorded 10,915 cases of Covid-19 and 107 deaths, according to government figures released on Wednesday night.