#Port Moresby General Hospital

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Tips for Visiting the Children's Emergency Department at Port Moresby General Hospital

Visiting the Children’s Emergency Department at Port Moresby General Hospital can be challenging, but with some preparation and understanding, you can improve the experience for both your child and the healthcare workers. Here are some practical tips to keep in mind: At Home: Initial Steps for Managing Illness 1. Manage Minor Illnesses at Home – Fever: You can manage a fever at home by cool…

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12/04/2022: The Princess Royal was received by Katherine Johnson, PMGH Deputy Chairman, and hospital CEO Dr. Paki Molumi, to open the National Cardiac Diagnostic Centre.

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne while on tour of the hospital was invited to unveil a plaque signifying the opening of the National Cardiac Diagnostic Centre.

The Port Moresby General Hospital is regarded as a level 7 teaching and referral hospital in the country that employs about 1500 plus workers, including doctors, nurses, administration and facilities.

As the day progressed, Her Royal Highness made a brief visit to the St. John Ambulance Control Centre at Taurama Road 3 Mile where Dr Lynda Sirigoi, St. John Ambulance CEO Matthew Cannon and Dr Mangu Kendino, welcomed her.

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Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence officially opening the National Cardiac Diagnostic Centre, at the Port Moresby General Hospital in Papua New Guinea on 12 April 2022 🇵🇬

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People moves: NASFUND, Australian Consul-General for Lae, EMTV, NZ High Commissioner, Japan's Ambassador leaves, Port Moresby General Hospital, Porgera Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Geopacific Resources #PNG NASFUND's new Chairman, Australia appoints Consul-General in Lae, EMTV loses CEO, a new NZ High Commissioner, Japan's Ambassador leaves, new Port Moresby General Hospital CEO, inaugural chairman of Porgera Chamber of Commerce, new board member at Geopacific Resources.

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Get Commercial Catering Equipment In Papua New Guinea At The Best Prices

You've just opened up a fine dining establishment, and the interior design is complete. Your dream has come true as you take a stroll around the room and take in the shiny new flooring and the freshly installed furniture. The bright white tiles, glossy parquet, and dazzling worktops in your kitchen will make you feel as if you've stepped into another realm the first time you see them. Then, as you look around at the empty rooms staring back at you, you start to think about how hard it will be to figure out what you need and how to buy the best commercial catering equipment for your kitchen.

Contact TE(PNG), the most reputable company in Papua New Guinea, if you are looking to purchase commercial catering equipment for your restaurant. The hospitality equipment experts at this well-known company have been in the business for over 65 years and can help you with anything from commercial kitchen appliances to dining room furniture to laundry and bathroom fixtures. They provide consistent, high-quality goods and services to Papua New Guinea's cafes, restaurants, commercial caterers, and other hospitality enterprises.

You should purchase your catering equipment from this company because of the following reasons-

They offer all types of catering equipment like espresso machines, fryers, ovens, combis, boilers, and other catering essentials at competitive prices.

They are the country's distributor for many brands, such as Moffat, Wash-Tec, Stoddart, Boema, and FED Refrigeration.

If the product you want is not in stock, they will go out and get it for you and deliver it to you anywhere in the country for free.

Their local support crew has received extensive training from the manufacturers to enable them to promptly resolve any issues that may arise.

Their in-house crew of electricians, plumbers, refrigeration experts, and general labourers work together 24/7/365

to resolve any problems with your equipment.

Before making any purchases of commercial catering equipment, you should always make sure to get in touch with TE(PNG) first so that the available alternatives can be adapted to your particular requirements. You are welcome to visit their showrooms in Port Moresby and Lae, both of which have displays of the available equipment.

Visit their showrooms today to make your order!

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COVID19 Updates: 03/27/2021

Brazil:  Brazilian officials raise alarm over younger people getting virus in latest deadly surge LINK

US:  #Coronavirus case numbers are rising in 28 US states, an 8% national rise over the last two wks. This pandemic is not done yet by any measure, no matter how ppl feel abt lockdowns.

India:  Indian cricket great Sachin Tendulkar contracts Covid-19 as cases surge LINK

Philippines:  Hashtags #DuterteResign and #DutertePalpak emerged as the top trending topics on Twitter Philippines on Saturday after President Duterte placed Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal, under ECQ from March 29 to April 4, 2021.

Paraguay:  Brazil #P1 now invading neighbors: Paraguay Minister of Health “confirms that the Manaus, Brazil variant is already circulating in the country". ICUs in Paraguay are now maxed out—#COVID19 deaths surging. Let this be a warning—this can all be us.

UK:  Variant Watch UK: Latest update doesn't seem too encouraging...Case increases during the past week: The Brazilian P1 cases doubled in one week from 13 cases to now 27...South Africa variant cases up by 46 cases to 412 total cases. B.1.525 up over 25% to 255 total cases. B1.1.318 up 60% to 67 total cases

US:  Variant Watch USA: From March 18 to March 24 the increase in detected cases of the variants of concern are: UK Variant B117 - increase by 2770 for a total of 8337; South Africa Variant B.1.351 - increase by 86 for a total of 266; Brazil Variant P1 - increase by 31 for a total of 79.  As always - the true number of variant cases is likely much higher than what has been officially recorded.

Brazil:  Brazil’s covid situation likely to worsen, experts have warned,  death toll could pass US, by end of 2021. Brazil currently reports 1/4 of daily deaths globally.  7 DMA of 2.4K deaths could hit 3K w/I weeks, 6 experts say, while daily the number of deaths could hit 4K;

Australia:  Helping out our neighbours in Papua New Guinea. One of our C-17A Globemasters arrived in Port Moresby, PNG this week, delivering critical COVID-19 vaccines and consumables, Australian Medical Assistance Team members and additional humanitarian supplies.

Poland: #Poland They have killed their grandparents and parents, ~62,000 #COVID19 deaths 2020 Now their partners and children in ICU 31,757 new cases🠕, 448 deaths🠕 In Warsaw ICU occupancy 96,4%, hospital bed 84% Humanitarian catastrophe

US:  WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials are anticipating the supply of coronavirus vaccine to outstrip U.S. demand by mid-May if not sooner, and are grappling with what to do with looming surpluses when vaccine scarcity turns to glut.

World:  Poland record 34,150 #COVID19 cases yesterday above 24,368/day week avg. COVID-19 fast avg case growth rate (daily/total) #Uruguay: 2.20% #Hungary: 1.62% #Jordan: 1.52% #Estonia: 1.42% #Poland: 1.19% #Bulgaria: 1.18% #Cuba: 1.15% #Philippines: 1.12% #Greece: 1.06% #Kosovo: 1.05%

Philippines:  Third Generation Covid-19 Variant Described In The Philippines LINK

Uruguay:  Helicopter with anti-Covid vaccines crashes and catches fire in Uruguay: “total loss

Cuba:  Cuba began late phase trials of two of its experimental shots this month, which will be Latin America’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccines if they prove successful. LINK

Netherlands:  The Netherlands reports 8,868 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase since early January

California:  COVID Cases Move Up As California Rushes to Vaccinate Millions LINK

Mexico:  An example of how often covid deaths can be missed in some countries. Data published yesterday shows in February the pandemic excess deaths in Mexico were 417k... While the official covid death toll was 173k.

Florida:  It's official: new cases are on the rise in #Florida. While new case #s had been declining for weeks, we've averaged 5,500 new cases a day over the past five days (versus an average of 4,500 a day last week). Not good. Could be spring break, could be #B117. #FlaPol #COVID19

Brazil:  Signs of collapse across Brazil as Covid spirals out of control. Bolsonaro seems to have little response LINK

Wisconsin:  First known case of COVID-19 variant from Brazil discovered in Wisconsin LINK

Europe:  Several European countries expand COVID curbs; France ‘critical’ LINK

World:  COVID-19 now killing more younger people, French doctor tells Euronews LINK

Australia:  #BREAKING Brisbane man who tested positive to coronavirus partied with friends while waiting for his test results.

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Patient Flow in the Children's Emergency Department at Port Moresby General Hospital

Patient flow refers to the movement of patients through various stages of care within a healthcare facility, from arrival to discharge. This process is crucial for delivering timely and effective medical care, particularly in high-demand environments like the Children’s Emergency Department (CED). It encompasses all the steps a patient experiences during their visit, including triage and initial…

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Covid has reached my hospital in Papua New Guinea – people could soon be dying in the parking lot | Coronavirus

Covid has reached my hospital in Papua New Guinea – people could soon be dying in the parking lot | Coronavirus

Join Hafta-Ichi to Research the article “Covid has reached my hospital in Papua New Guinea – people could soon be dying in the parking lot | Coronavirus” At Port Moresby General Hospital, about 20% of women presenting in labour have symptoms of Covid-19. Of these, about one-third (four to five women a day) test positive. We get the test results back about two to three hours after we take the…

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Growing up in the 60s in Port Moresby | Rebecca Kuku

Growing up in the 60s in Port Moresby | Rebecca Kuku

My mother, Eka Kama-Haro Kuku, 55, told me of  her life growing up in Port Moresby. She was born at the Port Moresby General Hospital on May 13, 1965 to Kama Haro and Aiha Aee Kama. My mother said: “My father was a carpenter and worked with Douglas Airways, patching up little planes that had holes in it.  He had been a  resident of Port Moresby since the 1930s. My parents had an arranged…

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Buy the Best-In-Class Commercial Catering Equipment In Papua New Guinea

You finally get your exquisite restaurant open, and the interior design is finished. As you take a stroll around the space, admiring the sparkling tiles and recently fitted furnishings, you realize that you have achieved your dream. When you step into your kitchen, the gleaming white tiles, the shiny linoleum, and the sleek sparkling countertops take your breath away and make you feel as if you have entered another world. Then, as your eyes dart around the empty areas that are staring at you, you start to ponder how to get the finest commercial catering equipment for your kitchen and think about the challenging work of really finding the prerequisites.

If you are considering buying commercial catering equipment for your restaurant, then you should get in touch with TE(PNG), the most renowned company in Papua New Guinea. 

With an experience of over 65 years, the hospitality equipment team of this reputed company are always ready to assist you with anything from commercial kitchen equipment datto dining room, laun, and room equipment. Cafés, restaurants, commercial caterers, and other hospitality businesses in Papua New Guinea rely on them for high-quality products and reliable services. 

You Should Hire this Company for the Following Reasons-

Espresso machines, fryers, ovens, combis, boilers, and baking basics are all available from them.

They are the in-country distributor for several different companies, including Moffat, Wash-Tec, Stoddart, Boema, and FED Refrigeration. 

To assist you to develop and optimise your workflow, they have a team of culinary experts on standby. This is all supported by their industry-leading service staff and availability of replacement components.

When your preferred item is not available from their inventory, they will collect it and ship it to you anywhere in the nation at no additional cost.

Their local support personnel has been well trained by the makers to quickly fix any problems that may arise.

They have a team of electricians, plumbers, refrigeration specialists, and general labourers on hand to guarantee that your equipment's uptime is as high as possible. 

The brand of this company is well-known in other countries, but they have also weathered the test of time and place in PNG, and their manufacturing partners fully support them in terms of replacement parts and escalated assistance. Always be sure to contact this company before purchasing any commercial catering equipment so that the equipment options can be tailored to your specific needs. You can visit their Port Moresby and Lae showrooms which include equipment on exhibit. Therefore, contact TE(PNG) today.

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PORT MORESBY GENERAL HOSPITAL GETS FACELIFT By Kana Noka- FM 100 Port Moresby General Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Paki Molumi says in the next ten (10) years PMGH aims to provide the much needed health services that are now being sought overseas.

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Doctors reject claims of flood of asylum seeker transfers

Attorney-General Christian Porter warned the new rules on medical transfers would see alleged criminals sent to Australia under a sharp increase in asylum seekers moved from Nauru and Manus Island for health assessments. Loading Home Affairs now faces the task of assessing up to 1,000 cases in a timeframe that is effectively determined by a very small group of doctors, Mr Porter told Question Time. We reasonably believe we will be faced with a flood of about 300 immediate Labor transfer cases. As an example, Mr Porter said one of the people in offshore processing had been charged with assaulting a medical officer, had a history of violence and was alleged to have been charged with murder in another country. He did not say this person was being considered for a medical transfer. Asylum Seeker Resource Centre advocacy director Jana Favero said the government had control over any risk to the community because all those transferred would be in detention unless the Immigration Minister decided otherwise. The only reason somebody would be in the community would be if the minister approved it, Ms Favero said. So its complete fear-mongering, its disgusting and its not true. The government has claimed a heightened risk of new boat arrivals, announced the reopening of the Christmas Island detention and warned of alleged rapists and murders entering the country after the passage of the medical transfer bill. Victorian senator Derryn Hinch, who voted for the medical transfer bill after getting a briefing from security officials, said the agencies were concerned about more boat arrivals. I think the governments talk about reopening Christmas Island and the flood of boats coming, thats doing more, I think, to stir the beast than anything that the crossbench or Labor are doing," he said. The government claim of 300 potential transfers, based on advice from the Department of Home Affairs, was in line with an estimate from an Australian doctor with experience on Nauru, Nick Martin, published last week.

Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, is home to several hundred refugees under Australia's care. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen But Dr Martin and others disputed the idea this number would arrive swiftly, given the time required for medical assessments and processing on Nauru. Will there be an immediate flood? Absolutely not, Dr Martin said. One checkpoint, he said, would be the Overseas Medical Referral committee, a Nauruan government entity that was historically slow to approve the removal of asylum seekers from the island. The OMR will be a big stumbling block and it hasnt been addressed in the media coverage, he said. Dr Martin said his experience on the island in 2016 and 2017 included cases that took weeks or months to be processed through the OMR committee, which is not under Australian government control. The medical transfer bill allows two doctors to approve an application, which is then sent to a review panel and the Immigration Minister, who can reject the transfer on national security grounds and if the person had been convicted of a crime and sentenced to one year or more in prison. Human Rights Law Centre executive director Hugh de Kretser said the government estimates about the transfers were not realistic based on existing work to assess and support seriously ill people on Nauru and Manus. There are currently around 70 people being supported through that process. There are a handful of people we are supporting who are critically ill and need an urgent transfer, he said. While the government has talked about doctors in Australia using Skype to make health assessments, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners believes doctors would have to go to the islands. Whoever is going to do this should go to Manus Island or Nauru and see what the conditions are on the ground, said RACGP president Harry Nespolon. That would be the minimum required if they are to do their job even vaguely properly. The founder and president of Doctors for Refugees,Barri Phatarfod, said there had been12 preventable deaths in the offshore system in the past five years and a new system was needed. "There are currently around 25 individuals in PNG hospitals who need urgent medical treatment not available offshore," she said. Loading "We know of one young man in PNG who has had epileptic seizures of unknown cause since July 2018 and there has still not not been adequate investigations performed to identify why is is still getting these. "There is a 23-year-old man referred by his doctor for coronary angiogram over six months ago. In Australia this would be done within three days. "A 29-year-old man with five years of abdominal pain has been recommended by his doctor to have a colonoscopy on Port Moresby almost a year ago and is still waiting." David Crowe is Chief Political Correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Dana is health and industrial relations reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Most Viewed in Politics Loading https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/doctors-reject-claims-of-flood-of-asylum-seeker-transfers-20190214-p50xwg.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal

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Ruby-Anne was Miss South Pacific PNG 2012 – 2013, and campaigned passionately against gender-based violence. She passed away at Port Moresby General Hospital in PNG on the 11th February. The circumstances surrounding her death remain undisclosed, however speculation suggests Ruby-Anne may have been thrown from a moving car.Ruby was born on February 13, 1992 in Port Moresby. 

She studied law at UPNG and was the owner of SKYLAR; a modelling agency and events management company.  She leaves behind her father Maurice from Gulf province; her mother, Hane Sepi Nouairi-Schaaf, of Central province and Tongan-German blood, and her younger sisters, Sherridan and Rhani Villie-Maina.

"The death of my friend Ruby Anne once more proves that no amount of education, money, privilege, or intelligence can insulate or protect Wantok women from the epidemic of gender based violence within the Papua New Guinean society. We must start addressing the issue with MEN, this is not a woman's problem or a women's issue, it is a fundamental flaw in man that needs to be addressed."  - Stephen Michael Leach.

No charges have been made as police are labelling it as a suicide. Rest in peace Ruby 

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Critical Care Medicine in Papua New Guinea. Part 2

Journey from Port Moresby General Hospital to Madang In Madang in 1998, I turned up at my workplace Operating Theatre and my team was already there in full swing at 0730 hours, they were called early at 6 am for an emergency operation to help an expatriate mother deliver her baby. The baby came out completely flat (can’t breathe), so our team started trying to revive the baby without luck, the…

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PNG Hospital CEO confirms periodic lack of insulin for diabetics

The CEO of the Port Moresby General Hospital has confirmed that sometimes they do run out of insulin for type one diabetics. Dr Umesh Gupta says it is a question of how to allocate limited resources, but he stresses that there are always stocks of insulin for emergencies.

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Why Taiwan and China are Battling over Tiny Island Countries - Explained

Why Taiwan and China are Battling over Tiny Island Countries

The News Cover: The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan, have fought their territorial dispute for generations, but now, nearly each and every one of the tiny nations dotting the Pacific Ocean has emerged as a battlefield for this conflict. 

The weapons of this war are not guns and bullets, but rather concrete and banknotes. This is a diplomatic mission aiming to shore up the support of some of the world’s smallest countries. There are fourteen nations in question here: Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Nauru, Vanuatu, the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati, Samoa, Niue, and the Cook Islands. 

With the exception of Papua New Guinea, each of these have populations below one million and each also tends to have fairly low GDP per capita’s—generally between one and five thousand dollars. This means that they’re each granted fairly significant amounts of foreign aid. In the previous decade, Niue, for example, received $134 million in aid, or about $83,000 for each member of its population. 

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Region-wide that average is only in the low-thousands, but the point is that the Pacific gets a lot of aid. Now, most of this does not come from Taiwan or China. Australia is by far the largest donor. It is important for Australia to be in these countries’ good graces for strategic reasons. For example, 6% of Australia’s GDP is made up solely of exports that take one of these three maritime routes—each of which passes by some of these Pacific countries. 

These trade routes could be disrupted if there were instability in the Pacific. Political stability also keeps foreign powers from attempting a power-grab in any of these nations, and any such power-grab would likely be too close for comfort for Australia. So, the primary aid motivation for Australia and its close allies, like New Zealand and the US, is stability. That is not the primary motivation for China and Taiwan. These two powers are openly engaging in what's known as "checkbook diplomacy.” They're buying diplomatic partners through financial aid, but why? China is a massive nation of more than a billion people. 

What benefit does it receive from having tiny nations like Samoa, Tonga, or Fiji on its side? Well, they might gain some limited benefit, but the main reason China works to build these diplomatic partnerships is so Taiwan can not. That’s because, to Taiwan, even a tiny, eleven-thousand person nation like Tuvalu is hugely valuable as Tuvalu has something Taiwan doesn’t. 

Tuvalu is a member of the United Nations. Taiwan is rarely recognized as an independent country in international settings. This is despite the fact that, in almost every way, it acts and operates as an independent country would. There are plenty of countries, like the US, for example, that have strong relations with Taiwan and treat it as if it were a country. 

The US has a de-facto embassy in Taiwan, recognizes Taiwanese passports, sells military supplies to Taiwan, and has an enormously strong trade relationship with Taiwan, yet it does not recognize Taiwan as a country. That’s because, in international relations, there is an implicit rule: you either recognize the Republic of China or the People’s Republic of China. 

Now, given the choice between working with the world’s most populous country or a moderately-sized island of 24 million, nearly every nation picks China. Even though Taiwan and the US are functionally allies while China and the US are frenemies, at best, it’s just not worthwhile for the US to recognize Taiwan as a country. 

This is the case for almost every country—that is, of course, unless Taiwan makes it worthwhile. Across the Pacific, Taiwan has been funding projects to keep small nations on its side. In Palau, they spent $1.3 million to help the country recover from Typhoon Haiyan. 

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In Papua New Guinea, they spent $4.5 million to improve domestic agriculture in order to increase food security. In the Solomon Islands, they spent $2.5 million to train local staff and conduct a survey of the islands’ local plant species. In Nauru, they spent $600 thousand donating more-efficient compact fluorescent lightbulbs to local households. 

In the Marshall Islands, they spent $1 million building a seawall around Majuro Atoll to protect it from rising sea-levels. In Fiji, they spent $300 thousand improving mental health service access around the country. In Tuvalu, they spent $200 thousand repairing and improving water storage equipment around the country after a cyclone. In Kiribati, they spent $19 million to repair and upgrade the country’s main airport. Each of these projects, and the hundreds more funded by Taiwan around the pacific, improves its relations with these countries, and therefore brings it more and more diplomatic clout. 

Taiwan can’t afford to buy the support of large nations, but in some settings the size of the nation doesn’t matter. In the United Nations General Assembly, for example, it’s one country, one vote. It doesn’t matter if it’s Tuvalu or China, when voting, every member nation has the exact same power. 

There are other systems in the UN where power is more balanced based on population, but overall, the world’s smallest nations have a disproportionate amount of power. More recognition, even by the smallest countries, strengthens Taiwan’s case for a position in intergovernmental organizations like the UN. That’s why Taiwan targets small nations for support. 

$5 million spent on Tuvalu goes a lot further than $5 million spent on Mexico, for example, but in the General Assembly, Tuvalu can help Taiwan just as much as Mexico can. This diplomatic clout that Taiwan has amassed, though, gets in the way of China’s ambition of eventually unifying the two. 

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It is for that reason that the People’s Republic has gone on the offensive. China has been courting Taiwan’s diplomatic partners in the Pacific with promises of larger aid packages. The most recent two defectors were Kiribati and the Solomon Islands. Early in the 2010’s China provided no foreign aid to either of these countries, but then, as soon as they each revoked their recognition of Taiwan, promises of planes, ferries, medical supplies, and more started pouring in from China. 

In addition to these two countries, Taiwan has lost diplomatic support from the Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Panama, and São Tomé and Príncipe since 2016. That leaves them with just fifteen total diplomatic partners, and only four in the Pacific region. To maintain the limited support that it has, Taiwan has had to get tactical. 

China’s style with aid is to build big, flashy, expensive infrastructure projects. In Fiji, they spent $50 million building a paved road that halved the time it took for local farmers to get to markets, but local engineers reportedly said that a far lower-quality and cheaper road could have achieved the same result. 

In Vanuatu, they spent $80 million upgrading a port to allow for larger cruise ships to dock, but in all of 2019, for example, just five visited. In Papua New Guinea, they spent $1 million building a malaria hospital in the capital of Port Moresby, despite that being the region of the country with the least malaria, and despite the capital having no road link to the regions with the worst malaria outbreaks. 

Each of these projects and more clearly have positive effects, but undoubtably they are not the most efficient uses of $1 or $50 or $80 million in the mission of improving relations between China and these Pacific nations. China does big, flashy, and sometimes ineffective aid. Taiwan does small, personable, and generally more effective aid. 

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That’s why they have been able to maintain the relationships they have for so long, despite a much lower budget. China works to impress the governments, Taiwan works to impress the people. Taiwan’s average aid project size in the Pacific is $500,000. China’s is $6 million. 

Taiwan does things like contribute $1,600 for Palau’s baseball team to attend a tournament in Guam, or spend $200,000 buying a boat for an outer atoll in the Marshall Islands, or construct $300,000 of solar street lights in Nauru. The $80 million port in Vanuatu might help people more than the $1,600 for the baseball team in Palau, but one can be sure that every member of that team and their families and friends heard about and remember how Taiwan helped them. 

That’s less likely with the large, somewhat ineffective port. Taiwan knows that the choice of which side to support is a political issue in the Pacific because there is that choice. Pretty much any politician in these countries will run their campaign with the Taiwan issue as part of their platform and so Taiwan is trying to gain the support of everyday people. 

They want to win support from the ground-up, rather than from the top-down. This might create a better value for their money, but at the end of the day, China just has so much more money. If China wants to win the political support of a small nation, they can just spend and spend and spend. At this point, Taiwan’s few, tiny diplomatic partners are no longer a threat to China’s goal of reunification. 

China will likely keep courting these nations, not because they need to, but because it’ll further weaken Taiwan. Eventually, though, if there comes a day when the Taiwan issue is resolved, either through reunification or recognized independence, the Pacific islands will be victims because, when it's no longer useful, the pawn is the first to be sacrificed. If you want to learn more about one of the four Pacific-island nations that are still on Taiwan’s side, the Marshall Islands, you can watch the Nebula-exclusive documentary we filmed on location in the Marshall Islands. 

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You heard earlier that Taiwan funded a seawall for the capital, Majuro, but The Final Years of Majuro explains why that was necessary, and what it means for the nation. It explains what life is like in a nation with an expiration date. The best way to get access to that is to sign up for CuriosityStream’s Nebula bundle deal. Curiosity Stream is, of course, home to thousands of documentaries that any Wendover viewer will enjoy, and Nebula is home to all of Wendover’s normal videos early and ad-free, plus special, exclusive projects like this documentary.

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