PNG Police investigate Threats against COVID-19 Team in Western Province
Four police officers have been sent to Kiwai Island to check out reports of threats issued to teams conducting awareness on Covid-19 in Western, acting South Fly police commander Inspector Soiwa Ricker says.
These officers went to Kiwai on a dinghy on Saturday to check out reports that thugs were preparing to move around in a canoe to harass the South Fly Covid-19 task force team that will be carrying out awareness on the island and nearby coastal villages.
Inspector Ricker says they don’t know why these locals are issuing threats, but will soon find out.
Ricker confirmed that the South Fly development authority gave K500,000 to the Fly Covid-19 task force team to build an isolation centre in Daru, were work has already begun at the Daru General Hospital.
That isolation centre after completion is to quarantine persons of interest.
Meantime, Health authorities in the South Fly district of Western Province are doing everything possible to ensure the Covid-19 disease does not spread to its boundaries.
This comes following the (3) confirmed Covid-19 cases in the province, particularly in the North Fly area.
Daru Provincial Hospital CEO, Alice Honjipari says they are working hand in hand with the Northern command to see how they can strategize if there is a confirm case in South Fly.
Honjipari says Western currently leads the national statistics for having the most number of people with tuberculosis (TB) and they will do everything they can to contain the spread of Covid-19.
It is still an emergency area as the struggling Daru hospital and provincial health care facilities battle to contain TB, and with Coronavirus they will be working together to mitigate the spread.
Fm 100 / PNG Today
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These officers went to Kiwai on a dinghy on Saturday to check out reports that thugs were preparing to move around in a canoe to harass the South Fly Covid-19 task force team that will be carrying out awareness on the island and nearby coastal villages.Inspector Ricker says they don’t know why these locals are issuing threats, but will soon find out.
Ricker confirmed that the South Fly development authority gave K500,000 to the Fly Covid-19 task force team to build an isolation centre in Daru, were work has already begun at the Daru General Hospital.
That isolation centre after completion is to quarantine persons of interest.
Meantime, Health authorities in the South Fly district of Western Province are doing everything possible to ensure the Covid-19 disease does not spread to its boundaries.
This comes following the (3) confirmed Covid-19 cases in the province, particularly in the North Fly area.
Daru Provincial Hospital CEO, Alice Honjipari says they are working hand in hand with the Northern command to see how they can strategize if there is a confirm case in South Fly.
Honjipari says Western currently leads the national statistics for having the most number of people with tuberculosis (TB) and they will do everything they can to contain the spread of Covid-19.
It is still an emergency area as the struggling Daru hospital and provincial health care facilities battle to contain TB, and with Coronavirus they will be working together to mitigate the spread.
Fm 100 / PNG Today
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