Overview

POMGen at a glance

1,100

The number of beds at POMGen

7.6 days

The average stay per patient at POMGen

85

The number of POMGen admissions per day

1,500

Number of POMGen outpatients per day

40 – 50

Live births at POMGen per day

1,654

Approx. number of POMGen staff

K287,671

Approx. cost per day to run POMGen

6

Number of operating theatres at POMGen

90%

Utilisation time for the POMGen operating theatres

26

Known number of polio cases in PNG in 2018*

66 years

Average life expectancy at birth for PNG as at 2016**

8,251,162

Population of PNG in year 2017**

Hospital numbers were current as at 11 February 2019
*Polio details taken from polioeradication.org/where-we-work/papua-new-guinea Downloaded 25 February 2019
**Population & life expectancy details taken from: data.worldbank.org/country/papua-new-guinea Downloaded 25 February 2019


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