On 15 April, ADI hosted a webinar in partnership with doctors Alison Brown (previous ADI doctor), Rebecca Taylor (ADI board member) and Becton Dickinson to staff at Kiunga Hospital. With content based on WHO recommendations and guidelines, the webinar focused on preparing hospitals, health facilities and their staff for COVID-19, the correct use of PPE and ensuring extended use of PPE. A Q&A session was also held after the webinar. A second webinar was then delivered to staff at Rumganie Hospital on 16 April.
At the invitation of local communities, ADI PNG Office Manager Aron Bale was accompanied by a nursing officers and local health workers to deliver public health awareness in Tiomnai Village and Gii Village in Western Province of PNG. Posters in Pidgin, education on COVID-19 and training in correct handwashing techniques soap and buckets were delivered to communities hungry for information on how they could protect their families from the virus. Community leaders were presented with soap and buckets so that handwashing stations could then be set up in each village.
ADI has also had PPE shipped to hospitals and health centres in Kiunga last week and continue to actively source and order PPE and medical equipment as it becomes available for use in this province.