Acting Chief Migration Officer Solomon Kantha

OOH organisers failed to lodge visa applications: Immigration

The annual lifesaving medical operation that gives Papua New Guineans a second chance to life will likely be deferred to another date.

Acting Chief Migration Officer Solomon Kantha said the authority was only informed to facilitate the issuance of visas for the doctors and nurses two weeks ago.

“The process is that OOH has to write to us, providing us the details and endorsing particulars of the foreign volunteer doctors that would be performing these operations.