As the virus spreads the PNG health system collapses

Tough luck! There is an urgent need to get our aid program focussed totally on the escalating covid crisis and the collapsing PNG health system.

The Australian public will support this if it is done transparently and in a targeted way.

While delivering vaccines is the main priority it must be accompanied by a serious discussion with the PNG Government on direct intervention to not just rebuild the health system, but to save it from imminent total collapse.

Unless that happens any vaccine program will fall short.

As I wrote last week, the need is urgent. Since then it has simply become even more urgent!