As the mediated President of the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea, I would like to welcome you to the official website for the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea (MSPNG). The website serves many purposes and most importantly to keep our life members and members informed and media update.

The current Executives of the MSPNG have usually look for ways to increase its channel of communication between life members, members, the community and the society at large that we serve. With this site we will be able to inform the general public what is happening within the Medical community including the latest news on medical updates in our society, the region and the world.

The Medical Society of Papua New Guinea is a professional medical society that gives professional advices to the Ministry for Health, the Secretary for Health, the government of the day and any other organizations on health issues of importance particularly to Papua New Guinea (PNG).

The Society is a non-governmental, non-profit making organisation and dependent on members’ subscriptions and donations. Currently members’ subscriptions provide more than 60% of funds for the running of the Society and the organization of the annual scientific meeting called the MSPNG Annual Medical Symposium.

The MSPNG convenes and conduct an Annual Medical Symposium, a forum where all different medical professionals cadres comes together to present their latest research findings to support policies, treatment or prevention usually on a particular theme. The forum is also where all the standard treatment for the different disease in this country are reviewed and revised according to the new research findings. However, last year 2020 and this year 2021 the Annual Medical Symposium was cancelled due to Covid 19 pandemic, but we hope to host the annual medical symposium next year in September 2022.

I truly appreciate you taking the time to visit our website and I sincerely hope that you will find the information provided within this web site enlightening and valuable. If there is anything we can do to make this web site better and easier to navigate, please feel free to contact us so that we can improve it.

Sincerely,

Professor Nakapi Tefuarani,

President

The Medical Society of Papua New Guinea