Australian Awards Scholarship Awardee Kaekae aspires to improve health services

Australia Awards PNG scholarship awardee Paul Duen Kaekae aspires to improve health care services in communities he will serve after graduation.
Kaekae, a former flight steward, was currently completing a Diploma in General Nursing at Lutheran School of Nursing.

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He said a training in first aid and aviation medicine sparked his ambition in a nursing career.
“Now that I have taken up nursing, I strive to learn as much as I can, complete this programme successfully and become a change agent in the community,” he said.
“My long-term goal is to gain more experience in the nursing field and complete a bachelor’s degree in midwifery so that I can contribute to women’s health, as the maternal morbidity and mortality rate in PNG remains unacceptably high and is among the worst in the world.”

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