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| ADI Charity Fashion Event in Sydney from 1-4pm on Saturday 4th May 2013 |
| Australian Doctors International (ADI) is excited to invite you to a charity fashion event in Sydney to help support our volunteer health programs in Papua New Guinea… and perhaps find a Mothers’ Day gift for your mum! |
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| Horizon Oil commits $300,000 to health services in Western Province, PNG, with Australian Doctors International |
| 7/3/2013: Horizon Oil, an Australian oil exploration company with operations in PNG, NZ and China, has committed $300,000 over three years to help improve health services in North Fly District of Western Province, PNG, in partnership with the medical development aid organisation Australian Doctors International (ADI) and the Diocese of Daru-Kiunga Health Services (DDKHS). |
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| Olding sisters to treat patients, train health workers and help install water and power for rural hospital in remote Papua New Guinea |
| 4/2/2013: Melanie Olding (32)(pictured), an experienced doctor based in Darwin NT, and her little sister Belinda Olding (30), a talented construction project manager based in Newcastle NSW, have arrived in New Ireland for a five-month volunteer assignment at Namatanai District Hospital. This 56-bed hospital is isolated and has no running water or reliable power, despite seeing over 66,000 patients a year. |
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| Barossa GP prepares for remote health patrols in New Ireland |
| 4/2/2013: “I expect that it will be a bit like childbirth,” says Barossa-based GP Dr Jenny Wilson of her upcoming volunteer assignment with ADI. “No one can fully prepare you for it and it can be both a wonderful and painful experience with an amazing, life-changing result.” |
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| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs visit schools and health centres in New Ireland Province, PNG |
| 31/10/2012: Following the NRL Grand Final 2012, players from the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs headed to Kavieng, New Ireland Province, PNG for a week. |
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| Corowa GP and schoolteacher duo to volunteer in remote New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea |
| Following three decades servicing the Corowa community and stints working in remote Indigenous communities, Dr Bruce Slonim and his wife Gayle Slonim, a rural primary school teacher, are headed to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to volunteer with the medical aid organisation Australian Doctors International who work in partnership with PNG’s New Ireland Provincial Government. |
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| Remote PNG hospital to get first doctor since 2010 thanks to $210,000 funding from Newcrest Mining in partnership with Australian Doctors International |
| ADI 25/6/2012: Newcrest Mining Limited is contributing $70,000 per year 2012-2014 to help Australian Doctors International (ADI) deploy volunteer doctors to Namatanai Hospital on five-month assignments. |
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| Critical health situation in Western Province, PNG, due to flooding |
| ADI 14/6/2012: Due to severe flooding in Western Province, the alarming health situation is escalating to a possible crisis. This includes the risk of a cholera outbreak. ADI wrote to the Director General of AusAID to inform him of the situation. |
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| New Ireland Provincial Government continues its partnership with Australian Doctors International for another year of healthy achievements |
| ADI 10/4/2012: Sir Julius Chan, Governor of New Ireland Province, has confirmed that in 2012 his government will commit over $190,000 (400,000 kina) to improve primary health care services in partnership with the medical aid organisation Australian Doctors International (ADI). |
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| Tetanus vaccination campaign underway in PNG |
| IRIN 2/4/2012: The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Health Ministry and international aid agencies have launched a mass vaccination of 1.8 million women and girls aged 15-45 against maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). |
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| AusAID strengthens TB detection and treatment in Papua New Guinea |
AusAID 6/3/2012: AusAID Director General Peter Baxter opened a temporary tuberculosis (TB) isolation ward on 22 February. This forms part of a wide range of initiatives being funded by AusAID to support Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) health authorities to reduce the threat of TB infection in PNG and the Torres Strait.
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| Poor eye care worsens rural suffering in Papua New Guinea |
| IRIN 5/3/2012: Serious eye problems are affecting tens of thousands across the half-island Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and exacerbating suffering in rural areas, say health workers. |
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