Burnt ventilator exposes ICU shortfall at Angau, clinicians tell parliamentary inquiry

Burnt ventilator exposes ICU shortfall at Angau, clinicians tell parliamentary inquiry

A burnt-out ventilator parked outside Angau Memorial Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has become a powerful symbol of wider failures in Morobe’s health system, clinicians told a two-day Special Parliamentary Committee into the Morobe Provincial Health Authority (PHA). Dr Kinibeth Leafasia, the head of anaesthesia and intensive care, told the special parliamentary committee that one of six ICU ventilators caught fire in August and remains unr…