BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE TWO young Taiwanese doctors have completed a four month stay in the country, providing medical services and specialized skills as general practitioners to the national referral hospital and two Honiara City Council clinics in Honiara. Dr…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA SOLOMON Islands is still experiencing an increase in non-communicable diseases (NCD) but it can be controlled, it is reported. Two specialists from Taiwan, Dr Li Cheng Yu and Dr Liu Kuan Fu have been helping the…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO HOSPITALS, clinics and area health centres across the Western province are feeling the brunt of the drug shortage problem, which is also felt in Honiara and other provinces. Western Province Director of Health Services, Dr Dickson…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA THE Republic of China (Taiwan), through its embassy in Honiara, on Tuesday donated medical supplies to the National Referral Hospital’s operation theatre and surgical ward as a quick response to the country’s current drug shortage. The…
By Alfred Sasako AS the drugs shortage crisis deepens, the Ministry of Health and Medical Services has provided further details on the steps it has taken to address the situation. Permanent Secretary Tenneth Dalipada yesterday provided the table below which…
THE Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) has expressed grave concerns over the medication shortage the country is facing that have reportedly led to mix up of medication as nurses and doctors work their best to substitute commonly…
The nation’s financial ills is worse than medicine shortage BY ALFRED SASAKO WHILE Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela has downplayed the seriousness of the acute shortage of medicines at the National Referral Hospital, there’s mounting evidence the nation’s economic situation…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA OPPOSITION leader Manasseh Maelanga has called on the Government to declare a state of medical emergency and quickly address the medical drugs at the national hospital (NRH). In a press statement from the Opposition Communication Unit,…
By Mike Puia PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS), Dr Tenneth Dalipanda, says the drug shortage issue experienced in the country was due to the procurement system. Dalipanda said it has nothing to do with…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands Planned Parenthood Association (SIPPA) has introduced a National Disaster Health response approach to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) public health emergency and surveillance unit officers. This newly introduced approach is called…
