Relief workers struggling to reach flood area in Western PNG | Pacific Beat

At the start of July heavy rains in the Fly River area, near the PNG border with the Indonesian Province of Papua, caused floods which have let many without their homes, destroyed food crops, and has limited their access to clean water.

The relief effort has also been affected by the PNG elections, with much of the country's transport infrastructure, and attention, focussed on the completing the poll.

But as the the Director of the PNG Disaster Management Service Martin Mose told Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney, their biggest program is the remoteness of the affected area.

Presenter: Campbell Cooney

Speaker:The Director of PNG Disaster Management Service Martin Mose