{"id":37369,"date":"2021-09-27T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/a-great-loss-tributes-pour-in-for-pioneering-png-female-doctor-who-died-from-covid"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:40:11","slug":"a-great-loss-tributes-pour-in-for-pioneering-png-female-doctor-who-died-from-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37369","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A great loss\u2019: tributes pour in for pioneering PNG female doctor who died from Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country\u2019s first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virus<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have poured in for a doctor in Papua New Guinea\u2019s Western Province who died last week, in the country\u2019s first death of a healthcare worker from Covid-19 confirmed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Naomi Kori Pomat, 60, the director for curative health services at the Western Provincial Health Authority (WPHA), was medevaced to Port Moresby after contracting the virus and died on 19 September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/a-great-loss-tributes-pour-in-for-pioneering-png-female-doctor-who-died-from-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country\u2019s first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virusTributes have poured in for a doctor in Papua New Guinea\u2019s Western Province who died last week, in the country\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,874,267,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37370,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369\/revisions\/37370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}