PNG 2025 Mission
“PNG 2025” Mission
This year, Aidocean returns to New Ireland for another multidisciplinary healthcare campaign.
As on previous missions, several specialists will join Marine to offer healthcare to the most destitute and isolated. The team is made up of French volunteers and a local medical team.
PNG 2025 mission objectives
Vaccination and medical care remain the priority for Mission 2025 :
- Primary and booster vaccination of children aged O to 5 against measles, rubella, tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough and poliomyelitis ;
- general medicine ;
- detection of malaria, leprosy and tuberculosis ;
- Dental care ;
- Pregnancy follow-up ;
- Ophthalmological check-ups and distribution of magnifying glasses ;
- distribution of books to schools ;
- Distribution of solar lamps for schools and dispensaries.
Who is involved in the GP PNG 2025 mission?
For this 3-week mission, the Aidocean team is made up of :
Marine Bayer, nurse and President of Aidocean
Christophe Grangeon, doctor and Aidocean secretary
Françoise Quinaud Green, gynecologist
Dorothée Degroote Stoupy, midwife
Marion Thellier, journalist, NC la 1ère
The local team of healthcare professionals at Kavieng Hospital includes:
Jennifer (midwife)
Abraham (dentist)
Jack (dental assistant)
Ignatius (ophthalmic nurse)
This mission will also be an opportunity to experiment with the use of a portable analysis laboratory: the Qube. PRISM, a biotechnology research and development company, is participating in the Aidocean 2025 mission by providing a specially adapted technology: a portable analysis laboratory, so that blood or urine tests can be carried out directly on site, with instant results.
An engineer will join the medical team to test the Qube’s capabilities in real-life situations.
The presence of local staff is always invaluable, both in extending the range of care we offer and in communicating with the local population.
Without them, our action would be more limited and less effective.
To find out more about the association’s staff, please visit the “About us” page.
The work area
This year’s mission takes place in the northernmost part of Papua New Guinea, northwest of New Hanover Island, where the PNG 2023 mission took place.
It is on Mussau Island and the surrounding islets that the Aidocean medical team is working. This mountainous island of 400 km² is home to around ten villages and a few more isolated communities. The surrounding islets of Eloaua and the Saint Matthias archipelago are also home to a few villages.
A hundred kilometers separate these isolated islands from Kavieng, New Ireland’s main town. Kavieng serves as a home port for the team, who will set sail from there with all the equipment required for the mission.
Want to join an Aidocean mission?
We currently benefit from the support of a number of partners, for which we are very grateful. We are always on the lookout for funding to be able to offer even more care and equipment to those in need. If you would like to support us, you can make a donation online. You can also contact us for any partnership proposals.
Thank you for your support. Without you, our care missions wouldn’t be possible!
Our partners
Thank you to our partners for their support and confidence. Thanks to them, we are able to continue our care missions year after year. Without them, nothing is possible.
Thank you to our partners for their support and confidence. Thanks to them, we are able to continue our care missions year after year. Without them, nothing is possible.
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