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Fiji Plans to Extend Medical Services to Outer Islands |
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pina.com.fj |
| Source Date: |
Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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| Country: |
Fiji |
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Fiji’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that it has major plans to build a floating hospital to service those in maritime areas who find it too expensive and inconvenient to travel to main centers for medical treatment.
The ministry's spokesman Peni Namotu told media that this was a long-term plan for the ministry to build a floating hospital which will serve the maritime islands of Fiji even though some citizens believe there was a need to improve health facilities on mainland first.
The maritime places are not accessible to services provided at the main referral hospitals and costs of boat fares can be quite unrealistic for these rural dwellers that rely heavily on subsistence farming and fishing for a living.
The Ministry of Health hopes that this floating hospital is going to address the issue of quality services provided to people living in those areas.
Namotu said that the floating hospital will be a ship which will have all state of the art medical facilities provided at major hospitals around the country.
However, critics believe that Fiji's Ministry of Health should at first concentrate on upgrading their services at public hospitals and existing health centres.
Pita Tukana, a resident of one of the suburbs outside Suva told Xinhua that health centres were not providing services expected from them as proclaimed by the government, adding although there were extended hours patients had to wait for medicine to be released the next day and often they waited for hours before being attended to by doctors.
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Fiji Plans to Extend Medical Services to Outer Islands Fiji’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that it has major plans to build a floating hospital to service those in maritime areas who find it too expensive and inconvenient to travel to main centers for medical treatment
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