SEVENTY-NINE new nurses received full nurse registration yesterday. They have acquired the part-two full registered Nurse Registration after completing their 12 months Nurse Supervised Practice programme which began in October, 2019. Minister for Health and Medical Services and guest speaker…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE National Oversight Committee of Covid-19 and the camp management are facing lack of adequate quarantine facilities to ensure students have individual rooms. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare stressed this yesterday when announcing the third positive case…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands students in the Philippines have been asked to move into government-arranged hotels or face being left behind. Majority of students have moved into hotels arranged by government as accommodation centres in its plan to…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO FOUR of our students in the Philippines have tested positive for covid-19. They have been taken in by the Philippines Red Cross to be kept in isolation and monitored, prime minister Manasseh Sogavare announced in his…
Uncontrollable interaction among students in quarantine foils government’s goal to contain virus spread in centres Government is forewarning the country to expect more covid-19 cases from our students in quarantine. This is because the students are breaching quarantine rules, says…
Ordeal of six who went missing at sea for 20 days BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO WITH only a paddle at their disposal, six adults were able to survive 20 days at sea on an outboard motor canoe with little food…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO PERMANENT Secretary for ministry of health Pauline McNeil has assured the nation that her ministry and its partners will not let go the fight against covid-19. “We want to ensure all our Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO WHILST the Ministry of Health is focusing its work on coronavirus-19 Preparedness and Response Plans, normal health services will still be discharged. “While we are working hard on our preparations and response plans on covid-19 our…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO PREPARATION work at the Institutional Quarantine Facilities prior to the arrival of 200-plus Solomon nationals is ongoing and on schedule. Chairman of IQF Karl Kuper assured the nation this during a radio talkback show on 28th…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) is working hard to make sure the provinces have GeneXpert machines. The GeneXpert machine is the device used to test for covid-19. Speaking in a radio talkback show…