Following a meeting on Tuesday with government ministers, the Papua New Guinea Nurses Association (PNGNA) cancelled a nationwide nurses’ strike planned for Wednesday. The PNGNA had called the strike ...

As many as 4,000 hospital nurses have walked off the job in Papua New Guinea in protest at the government's failure to deliver on a promised pay rise. The PNG Nurses Association says an agreed ...

Papua New Guinea health services have been thrown into chaos by a nationwide nurse's strike. In Port Moresby alone, more than 200 nurses walked off the job, leaving skeleton staff to attend to ...

Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Nurses Association organized a sit-in protest on March 26, 2020 to protest the lack of measures ...

Four thousand nurses are to strike across Papua New Guinea (PNG) this week over a lack of medical supplies and funding to handle the coronavirus outbreak. The action follows a sit-in by nearly 600 ...