LIFE OF THE WARD EPISODE PREMIERING AT THE PARADISE CINEMA THIS WEEK
BY LETHISA KOLOKOL
EPISODE 10 of the “Life in the Ward” series will be premiering on Friday this week, 13th February, 2026 at the Paradise Cinemas at Vision City, Port Moresby.
Life in the Ward is a 10-episoded series of documentaries on health, produced by Film-Bro, in partnership with the Paradise Private Hospital (PPH).
Driven with aim to create awareness with the local community, the documentary series itself took 6 years to create.
The film explores several health care issues in Papua New Guinea such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reproductive health and infectious diseases among others.
At the press conference held today (Tuesday 10th February, 2026), before the official premiering this coming Friday, PPH Chief Executive Officer, Dr Polapoi Chalau described the documentary film as a time capsule.
He says the health issues that frontline health workers face today and different from those in the past.
“In the past, doctors like myself had to deal with primary healthcare challenges. Today is totally different, lifestyle diseases is taking over” Dr Chalau said.
Dr Chalau says the film is about finding the right balance, identifying diseases and health care challenges of the past, and coming up with right solutions to address them now and in the future.
PPH Co-founder, Janet Sios says, PPH would like to be at the front line of innovations, introducing modern technology and digitalisation.
Writer and film maker, Marco Venditti said it has been a pleasure to work with PPH, in putting together a series of documentaries that every Papua New Guinean should watch.
Also present at the Press Conference today was PPH Director for Medical Services, Dr Erica Opu who reiterated on the importance of partnership between private and public health care service providers to deliver the best heath care delivery to ordinary people around the country.
Episode 10 is the final episode, exploring not only some of the new trends that are revolutionalizing healthcare in Papua New Guinea.
