PNG Medical Journal to be published quarterly

By SHEILA LASIBORI
THE Papua New Guinea Medical Journal starting next year will be published on a quarterly basis, thanks to the K180,000 assistance from the Australian government through AusAID.
The medical journal is an important source of information on health issues and new discoveries in the medical field, which has over the years being very helpful not only to medical practitioners but to policy makers and planners.
The journal is internationally reviewed so that the quality of evidence is critically appraised before publication.
Doctors, health workers and health administrators in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China, the United States, United Kingdom and Vanuatu among others subscribe for it.
Last Friday, AusAID’s acting first secretary for Health Gaye Moore and PNG Medical Society president Prof Mathias Sapuri signed the agreement which paved the way for the quarterly publication starting this year to 2009.
“The journal is a major source of health communication both in PNG and internationally, providing information on major health research carried out in PNG,” Ms Moore said.
She added that the Australian government’s aid programme supported access to knowledge and information to enable better health outcomes.
She also congratulated the society for the journal’s publications.
Dr Sapuri while thanking AusAID for the support said the journal was not only important to health workers but to the world.
Dr Andrew Masta, who is a medical scientist and also an adviser to the society, said the trend of research in PNG had changed from just clinical alone to both clinical and basic health.
Secretary for the society Dr Sylvester Lahe said: “We are so proud to have this journal as a flag carrier for PNG medical research and proud to have been in print for so many years.”
Prof Makapi Tefuarani also outlined some of the major researches that had been carried out in PNG.

It seems all the money raised by the medical society has been spent on anything but the journal. Now somebody else is bailing out the journal. WHere has all the money gone?

And Dr Sapuri who is not qualified to be a professor but used this title widely by virtue of the fact that UPNG was calling its deans professors regardless of whether they deserved the title continues to shamelessly use it.

Whatever will we have next?

incredibile!! using the system for their own selfish gain.

He seems like an aspirant to somewhere higher which was evident in his handling of the contamination case and others.

Shouldnt the reporter be also held accountable?

Even Dr Waiko was called a professor even after he left UPNG and was an MP.

Something for journos to learn.

Difference; Waiko earned his title as a Professor. Surely if the media repeatedly put a title before your name that you do not deserve you ought to tell the editors not to repeat the mistake.

True.