St John Ambulance

The course involves the trainees becoming competent in basic life support, defibrillation, resuscitation, emergency child birthing, and providing life support for other common medical emergencies including allergy, asthma, snakebite, bleeding, heart attack and stroke.

Having completed the induction course, the students now start their internship.
During the internship, the students work on ambulances under the supervision of a senior ambulance officer. They are mentored and will complete further studies and examination over the next 12 months.

St John Ambulance Chief Executive Officer, Matt Canon said under the partnership, CPL will be selling a selected range of First Aid Kits in a first of its kind partnership between St. John and a retail pharmacy.

“We couldn’t be happier to be partnering with CPL, an organisation known nationally for their quality and reliability and helping people to access vital medical supplies across Papua New Guinea,” he said.

This incident has prompted the Chair of St John, Dame Jean Kekedo to ask the government to make amendments to the St John Act of 1976, to make it illegal to obstruct or hinder ambulance officers performing their duties.

The incident happened at around 3.30am in Kaugere on Saturday, when an ambulance crew was responding to an emergency near the Kaugere basketball area. It was reported that two males who appeared to be heavily intoxicated, confronted the emergency crew.

As part of their corporate social responsibility initiative, Atlas PNG contributes K1000 to St John Ambulance from the sale of every full-kit home.

The funding support will go towards assisting the St John Ambulance operations in its response to medical emergencies across PNG.

St John Chief Executive Officer, Matt Cannon, who received the cheque donation thanked Atlas Steel PNG for the generosity of the sponsorship.

“We acknowledge and thank kindly Atlas Steel for their generous contribution to the ambulance service,” said Mr Cannon.

St John will also assist EU delegates with home medical services to help them access health care when it’s urgent, but not an emergency.  
In an important step to promoting emergency preparedness, St John is helping the EU in upgrading all its existing first aid kits and installing defibrillators (AEDs) at all its worksites in Port Moresby. 

Thirty six cases and incidents were attended to across the city.

Over half of these were trauma cases involving alcohol fuelled incidents of violence including a number of stabbings. Majority of the incidents occurred between 12:30am and 2am.

“St John has always been busy with emergency operations in Port Moresby during the New Year’s,” said St John Ambulance CEO Matt Cannon. “We are generally concerned about the availability of cheap high-strength liquor in NCD.”

Sadly, Christmas brings no respite for the stretcher of an ambulance, nor the bed of a hospital. POMGEN and St John were wishing for the best Christmas gift this year was for you to celebrate responsibly and stay safe.

The festive season becomes hectic for the ambulance service and public hospitals because, extra to the routine emergencies especially attending to COVID-19 cases, they have to attend to people with multiple injuries.

A small but significant presentation was made at the PNG Ports office in Port Moresby yesterday, Thursday 25^th November.

PNGPCL Managing Director, Fego Kiniafa said this is not the first time PNG Ports has assisted St John Ambulance, but this time help has come in a big way.

He said they would also assist St. John Ambulance service in Lae where their biggest port facility is.

Mr Weggemans said Rotary Port Moresby is looking for a way to help the effort in fighting COVID in Port Moresby and they have witnessed the excellent job being done by SJA including the management of the TAC.

“In response to the COVID surge, we were looking for a way to help and we have seen that St John is doing an excellent job in managing the outbreak and the facility at Taurama Aquatic COVID Centre.

Newcrest Mining has come to the aid of St John Ambulance to support its operations following a demand for ambulance services due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the Morobe province.

Funds for the ambulance came from Newcrest’s Community Support Fund (CFS) that was established in April 2020 to help Newcrest’s host communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.