BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SIMPLE surgical masks have been recommended by Ministry of Health and Medical Services, says Dr Jimmie Rodgers, Secretary to Prime Minister and Member of the Oversight Committee. Rogers said the basic recommended mask is the surgical…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO GOVERNMENT is being called on to reinstate the nurses’ association SINA since there is no other body to address and promote nurses’ welfare in the country. General Secretary for the suspended Solomon Islands Nuses Association (SINA)…
BY MAVIS N. PODOKOLO SEVENTY-EIGHT newly graduated nurses are in the process of being recruited, with some ex-pecting to start duties today. Pauline McNeil, Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS), said this is necessary to fill…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE national government had revealed that only 73 nurses are eligible to receive covid-19 allowances and not all nurses. This was revealed by Dr Jimmie Rodgers Secretary to Prime Minister and member of the over-sight committee…
Government urges nurses to abandon sit-in protest and resume duties BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NURSES on sit-in protest have been asked by government to return to duty. Government has labelled the peaceful sit-in protest staged by nurses, beginning Friday last…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands Nursing Association (SINA) proposed peaceful sit -in process planned for today (Friday 30th October) over delays to their covid-19 allowance has been postponed. A statement by the General Secretary, Steven Maitani, on Thursday 29th…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO SIXTEEN returning female students quarantined at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort were released yesterday after completing all testing protocols. Karl Kuper, Chairman for Institutional Quarantine Facilities (IQF), confirmed that the 17 students, who returned from the Philippines,…
Nurses to stage sit-in protest over unpaid allowance claim BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NURSES in Honiara and Guadalcanal will stage a sit-in protest starting tomorrow over delays to their covid-19 allowance claims. The action is likely to bring to a…
One of four new covid-19 cases had refused to wear mask in plane BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SELFISH attitude of one returning national repatriated on Sunday night’s flight has put the country at greater risk to the virus. Prime Minister…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE country has recorded four new cases of covid-19. This brings the national tally to eight cases in total; four active, four inactive and fully recovered. All four new cases are asymptomatic, continuing the country’s remarkable…