The funding will go towards training for PNG doctors and nurses in Singapore so that they’ll be able to perform surgery work for the OOP.
The overseas doctors that come for the OOP do not perform most of the operations but oversee the training of PNG doctors and nurses.
OOH in the past 18 months has seen a doctor return from Singapore as a fully trained cardiothoracic surgeon, two prefusionist nurses and six ICU nurses who go for regular training
OOH plans to send two more PNG doctors overseas to train next year.
