Diseases on the rise in PNG

3 Aug 2012, 7:02 pm   -   Source: Stefan Armbruster, SBS
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Tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS are all on the rise, in a country where the population is booming and the health system is hopelessly understaffed and rundown.

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Papua New Guineans were promised free health care during the election campaign by the man due to form the next government.

It's a bold offer in a country with a dilapidated health system and a rising incidence of many treatable diseases.

At least one key power broker is warning that free health care could bankrupt the country.

Stefan Armbruster travelled with an Australian volunteer doctor through the remote New Ireland province see the health system first hand.

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