Papua New Guinea: Two midwives passionately work to reduce maternal and infant mortality
Joanne Nanguhori is from East Sepik and Jinny Mombu from Southern Highlands, but they share the same passion – to take care of the sick and the vulnerable. This desire to heal led them both to pursue studies in nursing. While Joanne graduated in 2000 from Kudjip School of Nursing, Jinny completed her studies from Mendi School of Nursing in 2018.
Joanne s work with rural health facilities brought her face to face with the realities of maternal and infant mortality. The ghastly experiences sunk deep within her. She recalled a moment,
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Joanne Nanguhori is from East Sepik and Jinny Mombu from Southern Highlands, but they share the same passion – to take care of the sick and the vulnerable. The desire to heal drove them to pursue studies in nursing.
Joanne graduated in 2000 from Kudjip School of Nursing, while Jinny completed her studies from Mendi School of Nursing in 2018.
Joanne’s work with rural health facilities brought her face to face with the realities of maternal and infant mortality. The ghastly experiences sunk deep within her.
Joanne Nanguhori posing with her bachelor in midwifery studies from the University of Papua New Guinea
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IMAGE: Suzanne Baldwin, Thonis Family Professor, examining a gneiss, a type of metamorphic rock on a field expedition to Goodenough Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. view more
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On a beach on a remote island in eastern Papua New Guinea, a country located in the southwestern Pacific to the north of Australia, garnet sand reveals an important geologic discovery. Similar to messages in bottles that have traveled across the oceans, sediments derived from the erosion of rocks carry information from another time and place. In this case the grains of garnet sand reveal a story of traveling from the surface to deep into the Earth (~75 miles), and then returning to the surface before ending up on a beach as sand grains. Over the course of this geologic journey, the rock type changed as some minerals were changed, and other materials were included (trapped) within the newly formed garnets. The story is preserved i
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It has been my privilege to know personally, work closely with, and occasionally disagree with, the Right Honourable Sir Mekere Morauta, whose death the nation mourns, says former Prime Minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu.
“He was a close friend, my
talaigu, and a colleague in the public service and Parliament over 54 years,” stated the fourth prime minister.
“Mekere and I were in the first intake of students at the University of Papua New Guinea. We were in the same class in a number of subjects, including economics, in which he excelled far better than me. He was an outstanding student, and I could see then he would emerge as an influential leader of Papua New Guinea in the critical period leading up to Independence in 1975, and a national leader thereafter.
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Universities in Papua New Guinea are looking to fill vacant spots in some degrees after a 50 per cent spike in the number of Year 12 students who failed high school in 2020.
Education authorities have blamed COVID-19 for the disappointing results, saying the school year was disrupted by months of lockdown.
More than 6000 students did not pass their final exams, compared with about 4000 the previous year.
University of Papua New Guinea vice chancellor Professor Frank Griffin said he hoped it was a one-off scenario. We were only dealing with a year that that was very much disrupted by a global pandemic, and that led to the students not performing as they were expected to, Professor Griffin said.