The latest indication of the poor financial situation being faced by Papua New Guinea's medical services is the halting of ambulance services in Port Moresby.
The Post Courier newspaper says the public ambulance service had to stop operating over the weekend after it ran out of fuel.
A St John's Ambulance Service superintendent Graham Keake apologised to those who might die as a result of the closure.
The shutdown leaves some 300,000 residents of Port Moresby's National Capital District without emergency services.
Lack of funds, coupled with poor administration has sparked widespread medical crises in the last three months.
It took a widely publicised medical supplies crisis at Mount Hagen last month to prompt PNG's Health Department into organising emergency supplies to the remote hospitals.
Mount Hagen's medical staff, who are still battling a measles epidemic, said that for several weeks the lack of medicines and intravenous fluids was killing two children a day.
