Double Duty: Linking sexual and reproductive health in PNG
11/5/08
… As Treasurer of the Papua New Guinea Midwifery Society, Ms. Bagoi recently traveled to Uganda for the first Global Forum on Human Resources for Health convened by the Global Health Alliance. According to the alliance, a total of 4.25 million health workers are needed in 57 critical countries to meet dire staffing shortages,of midwives, nurses and doctors. “I’m part of this forum, because I want the midwives’ voices to be heard,” says Ms. Bagoi. The island nation of Papua New Guinea is situated east of Indonesia, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean. The situation there is similar to that of many developing countries, Bagoi says, with health workers migrating from rural to urban centres for better working conditions…
See: http://www.thenational.com.pg/051208/wkender4.htm
Tags: health, PNG, Womens Rights