'We have nothing': Papua New Guinea's broken health system braces for Covid-19

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In a country where nurses are forced to use rice packets as gloves and laundry detergent as disinfectant, there is terror at the arrival of coronavirus

The first that staff at Nonga General Hospital in Papua New Guinea heard that they had been treating someone with coronavirus, was when they saw the country’s prime minister announce it in televised press conference on Monday.

 

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Y nos quejamos

Move your capital to Sydney for a better living and fire your politicians

Heartbraking.

They just want foreign aid money they don’t even have any cases

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Call me callous if you like but my level of sympathy for third world countries who have had many decades of aid to build up their health and social infrastructure still whining about not having a workable system is pretty low. The First world is not responsible 4 the 3's failures

WHO should be here where have they gone

bollemdb

Where is Australia?

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