PNG health system ‘on brink of collapse’, Qld may feel aftershocks, doctors say

Friday March 26, 2021

A major international doctors’ group says Papua New Guinea’s health system is on the brink of collapse as COVID-19 cases soar, vaccine doses fall well short and health care staff test positive.

Royal Australian Air Force personal are seen preparing COVID-19 vaccines and humanitarian supplies for loading onto a C-17A Globemaster at RAAF Base Amberley, west of Brisbane, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Australia are sending 8,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine supply to Papua New Guinea who have more than 1,400 active cases of COVID-19 and the Australian government are asking AstraZeneca and European authorities to divert another 1 million…



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