‘A great loss’: tributes pour in for pioneering PNG female doctor who died from Covid

Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country's first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virus

Tributes have poured in for a doctor in Papua New Guinea's Western Province who died last week, in the country's first death of a healthcare worker from Covid-19 confirmed by the government.

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.