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