Last Newsletter (pg.3)pg.1 |pg.2 |pg.4 |pg.5 |pg.6 |pg.7 |pg.8 Elective StudentsThank you to our 3 UK medical students, Charity, Joy and Hazel who carried out their electives with us at Koinambe. Also a special thank you to Hannah Ellis from Birmingham University, UK, our first nursing student spending her elective with us at Oro Bay. She was very popular everywhere she went, and delivered her very first baby! To the surprise of PNG nurses, midwifery is not part of the basic nurse training in England. She sent us a copy of her excellent presentation at Birmingham University. It was so impressive that we have already received an application from Katharine Lawson, one of Hannah’s colleagues, who we have approved to come next year. Scouts We have had an active year of scouting activities:-
Nervous and excited Sr Florence Boiga left PNG at the end of October, for her first visit overseas. She has been invited by ABM to visit the Dioceses of North Queensland, Rockhampton and Brisbane in support of the Archbishop’s Provincial Appeal in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Florence was trained at St Barnabas School of Nursing, where she was the student member of the Board of Governors. After graduation she went to Koinambe in Aipo Rongo Diocese, where she was later appointed as the Diocesan Coordinator for the Village Birth Attendant Programme. She was sponsored by AHS in 2003 to successfully study for the Diploma in Health Teaching at Goroka University and is currently a Tutor at St Margaret’s CHW School. |