BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI FATHERS are said to also play an important role in breast feeding. Although breast feeding is carried out by mothers, fathers also need to understand their responsibility under the breast feeding programme. Chief Nutrition Officer from…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE THIRTY-THREE local health workers from NRH, HCC, Guadalcanal province, and nursing school of SINU attended an Infection Prevention and Control workshop at the Taiwan Health Center (THC) from October 30 to November 1. THC Leader, Alice…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE WHILE there are very good surgeons at the National Referral Hospital (NRH), we need more surgeons as this is one of the challenges experienced at the hospital. The above was expressed by resident doctor from Taiwan,…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA SOLOMON Islands has recorded the highest number of stunted children in the Pacific, according to report. The report from UNICEF says 33 out of 100 children in Solomon Islands are stunted. In addition, only 30 out…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI HUMAN behaviour is very important in health setting as it affects health and quality of life. Director of Health Promotion Division of MHMS, Mr Ben Rickie said yesterday that behaviour is the result of a complex…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MALAITA Provincial Health Authority is hosting the first-ever National Health Setting Conference, underway in Auki. The four-day meeting started on Monday this week with the theme “Sustaining health promotion activities in the setting”. Speaking during the…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE A concerned citizen says more government priority should be given to nurses in the country. The individual who wishes to remain anonymous says she had experienced seeing only one nurse tending to a ward in the…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE Bank of South (BSP) in Solomon Islands has called on businesses operating in the country to wear something pink in aid of Pinktober. The call was made in a press interview with the BSP Country…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA CATARACT remains the leading cause of visual impairment in Solomon Islands. This is despite progress made in surgical techniques at the Regional Eye Centre. The National Referral Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr John Hue said, the country’s…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA IT is estimated that 6,000 Solomon Islanders are blind or visually impaired. This was revealed by the National Referral Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr John Hue during the World Sight Day celebrated yesterday. Hue said that an…
