Correctional Service Training College

Final leg of the Detainee Management & Records System Database Training for data entry officers. Three officers from Buimo CI and one from Bomana attended the training. Internally the training will be rolled out to all institutions when all technical requirements are in order. The program was officially closed by the Training Commandant.

Official closing of the Detainee Records Management System Training of Trainers Training by Deputy Commissioner Corporate Affairs.

Deputy Commissioner Operations David Suagu and the Traiining Commandant Chief Superintendant Haraha Kiddy Keko opening the Detainee Management Records System database training this morning.

CSHQ ICT officers assisting in setting up Training Lab for Detainee Management Reporting System database TOT Training. The training will be facilitated by NEXT International. Officers from CSHQ, Bomana CI and Buimo will attend this training schedule for next week.

Public Notice. POM General Hospital is no longer safe as of yestersday.

See Public Notice from the Office of the CEO of POM GEN [20/10/21] reproduced below:

Dear all,

Kindly find below information:

PMGH is reaching a crisis point, with services teetering on collapse unless we are immediately given more support. We urgently need additional resources to combat the current surge, and we also need the public to follow the Nuipla Pasin to help break the transmission of the virus.

The situation at Port Moresby General Hospital is as follows:

The AUSTMAT triage tent is full, Emergency Department is full, the isolation ward is full, the COVID ward is full and all other beds in different sections including the maternity wing allocated to COVID are also full with Covid19 patients. 52 medical and 42 nursing staff of the Hospital have been infected by the virus and must be given days off for home isolation, further reducing manpower.

We are faced with a crisis where COVID patients are presenting in large numbers with shortness of breath requiring manpower to assist. The few staff left are overworked and fatigued and we need to recruit more staff urgently. Our staff are facing unprecedented mental health challenges, as we witness death tolls never seen in the history of our hospital.

PMGH Medical staff are being requested by other PHAs, and this is placing a lot of pressure on existing capacity at the hospital. PMGH is supporting Provinces with specialised staff as part of the emergency medical team travelling around the country. This week an anaesthetist, a Obstetrics and Gynaecologist with a midwife will be travelling to Goroka Hospital, which is also in desperate need.

Rapid diagnostic tests for COVID on visitors and other patients at the hospital, after confirmation with gene Xpert testing, are showing a 15 per cent positivity rate. Many of these are random visitors, some completely asymptomatic, but able to spread the virus to the vulnerable, including patients in the hospital being treated for other illnesses. What this tells us is, people are moving around without knowing they have the virus and spreading it resulting in widespread community transmission.

People are dying without reaching the hospital. Our mortuary recorded 50 deaths on admission on Monday, 40 deaths on admission on Tuesday and 30 deaths on admission today, with more expected tonight. We have never recorded such a high number of deaths on admission.

The Morgue is filled, with bodies packed on top of one another. Right now, 300 plus bodies are at the morgue. Three more refrigerated containers have been installed to store dead bodies, but this is not enough. Some bodies were left outside for days because we just don’t have space in the morgue. A mass burial of 200 bodies is being planned this week to create more space. The bodies are both COVID positive and unclaimed non-COVID.

Our hospital cannot continue to operate under this pressure. The virus doesn’t move, people do. We need an immediate intervention to preserve the fragile health system here in the NCD. Our hospital is a central part of that health system and we are under resourced and understaffed in the middle of an aggressive third wave. As all our limited resources are focused on COVID patients, we are struggling to attend to the everyday healthcare needs of our community.

We urge the people of NCD to play their part. Stay home, wear masks properly covering your nose and mouth when in public, and isolate if you have a sore throat and flu like symptoms. If you are eligible to be vaccinated, please vaccinate. Unlike our previous two waves, we are witnessing too many senseless deaths of young Papua New Guineans in their prime, with many more unvaccinated being admitted with severe illness. Without a stronger enforcement of the Nuipla Pasin measures and a large proportion of the population been vaccinated, this institution faces imminent collapse.

We encourage the public to follow the NIUPLA PASIN and most importantly receive the COVID vaccine to avoid hospitalisation.

Help us to help you.

Photo: The general public lining up at the Triage Tent in front of the Emergency Department to be tested before seeking services or visiting the hospital.

Officers be on alert breakout at Bomana CI 30 minutes ago.

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