Vanimo-Green District

Berry Ropa – current outbreak coordinator – says to date, the district has had 57 cases, six of which have been confirmed from the laboratory and 2 unconfirmed deaths.  

A team has been dispatched into the district to carry out a verbal autopsy to determine the cause of death.

But for now, Ropa says the National Department of Health has been working closely with the provincial health authority and other partners on ground, and have managed to contain this contagious disease within the district.

The Vanimo-Green MP and PNG Party parliamentary leader made this comment on the FM100 radio talkback show yesterday.  

“What is lacking is a land use plan to guide a government at the LLG, provincial and national level,” Namah said.

He stated that the land use plan is a blueprint that will be used to direct development in specific areas.

Namah boasted about his rainforest and rugged electorate having the biggest oil palm plantation in the country spanning 140 hectares, beside its major revenue earner from logging.