International organisation providing medical equipment to health centres

Paediatric outpatient unit at Kavieng hospital, New Ireland, receiving new medical equipment from ADI – an autoscope, stethoscope, and pulse oximeter, which had previously been lacking in their unit.

THE Australian Doctors International (ADI) continues to provide essential medical equipment to its partners in Papua New Guinea.
It donated some medical equipment to 16 rural health centres across West New Britain, Western and New Ireland on Aug 6.
ADI is a non-government development aid organisation with no religious or political affiliations.
It is supported by Old Dart Foundation, Australian non-governmental organisation cooperation programme and Newcrest Mining.
The health facilities to receive the equipment were selected through close consultation with provincial health leaders and decision-makers.
The medical equipment includes digital blood pressure monitors, portable pulse oximeters, blood pressure cuffs, stethoscopes, otoscopes, and malnutrition bands that will assist the healthcare workers in both urban and remote areas to ensure that the quality of clinical care remains high during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Chairman of the West New Britain health authority Dr Mathias Sapuri commended ADI for its commitment to support the authority and the provincial government through their efforts in providing access to health services to communities in West New Britain.
Dr Supuri said the recent donation of essential medical equipment to five rural and two urban health facilities was a timely intervention to ensure that caregivers were supported to continue to serve people efficiently.
The handover of the medical equipment came in addition to ADI’s Covid-19 response which involved the shipment of more than 70,000 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE), amounting to 940kg of kit, including 250 boxes of gloves, 19,000 surgical masks and 759 disposable scrubs.