Photo Tours

Photo tour of Port Moresby Emergency Department

5 sections of Port Moresby Emergency Department
- Triage / Waiting room / Fast Track
  - Triage nurse present 8am to 4pm, No triage nurse 4pm onwards !
  - Out of hours it is resident or registrar that does triage
  - Either see and discharge, or send to resus or send to B section
- A section: Resus room x1, Resus Bays x 3, Acute beds x7
- - Procedure room
  - No computers
  - Wall oxygen, suction, ECG machine, ultrasound machine
  - Patients buy their own exercise books to write notes
- B section
  - Short stay unit x 10 beds
  - Can be >4 day waiting for bed
- C Section “Isolation Area”
  - Isolation area
  - aka DITO ward (Dirty, Infectious, Tb, Others (eg HIV))
- Corridor
  - Waiting area for stable patients awaiting ward bed – up to 2 day wait
  - Psych and social worker room
  - Examination rooms x2
  - Snake bite room
Current equipment in Port Moresby Emergency Department:
- Defibrillators x2
- ECG machine x2
- Oxylog 3000+ and Oxylog 2000 ventilators
- 2 cardiac monitors
- 2 sats probes
- Ultrasound machine (1980s)

: Entrance

: Main Entrance

: Med school entrance

: Main Entrance

: Back entrance

: Main Entrance

: Sign at hospital front entrance car park

: Main Entrance

: Back Entrance

: Side of hospital

: Side of hospital

: playground on hospital grounds

: playground on hospital grounds

: Left to Right: Dr Kibob, Dr Tsiperau, Dr Yockopua, Sister Tafatu, Dr Aisi, Dr Philips inspecting new hospital – Feb 2012

: Rural Ambulance

: Emergency entrance – Mark Trembath

: Rural Ambulance

: Left to Right: Dr Aisi, Dr Tsiperau, Dr Kibob, Dr Yockopua, Sister Tafatu, and Dr Philips inspecting new hospital – Feb 2012

: Emergency Entrance – Zafar Smith

: Waiting Room

: Triage Desk

: Waiting area for stable patients awaiting bed on wards

: Ward rounds

: Resus room

: Cardiac monitor

: Resus drugs

: Oxylog 3000+ Donated by Mining Company

: Resus room

: Resus room

: Bedside cardiac monitor

: Ultrasound machine donated by St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne

: ECG machine

: Resus room

: Ward round in the Isolation Ward (aka DITO ward)

: CT scanner

: CT scanner work room

: CT work room

: Psych ward staff

: Emergency department Sharps container

: Sign in psych ward

: Sign in psych ward

: Sign in psych ward

: Dentistry department

: Medical Library behind hospital

Photo tour of Modilon Hospital, Madang

Modilon hospital, front entrance, May 2013

: Modilon Hospital, Madang. Front Entrance May 2013. Photo courtesy of Dennis Lee.

: Modilon hospital, front entrance, May 2013. Photo courtesy of Dennis Lee.

: Modilon Hospital, 3 bed Emergency Department. May 2013. Photo courtesy of Dennis Lee.

: Modilon Hospital, Madang. Theatre entrance May 2013. Photo courtesy of Dennis Lee

: Modilon Hospital, Minor procedures room. May 2013. Photo courtesy of Dennis Lee

Photo tour of Kwikila District Hospital

In Feb 2013 Dr Desmond Aisi (ED consultant at Port Moresby) kindly took two emergency registrars (Mark Trembath & Zafar Smith) on a visit to Kwikila District Hospital which is 1 hours drive outside of Port Moresby. They met senior nurse Rhoda Selapui who gave them a tour of Kwikila Hospital.