Fiji PM opens refurbished Ratu Sukuna Ward

(Friday, January 28th, 2011, No:0224/MOI )

Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama opened the refurbished Ratu Sukuna Ward at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital this morning.

The refurbishment programme, which began last year, is a joint partnership between the Fijian Government and the British High Commission, which contributed close to $200,000 worth of funding and equipment.

Commodore Bainimarama said the CWM Hospital had continuously expanded and refurbished to improve clinical services since its official opening 87 years ago in December 1923.

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“My Government and I are very committed to continuously improve the provision of quality health services to our people,” the Prime Minister said.

Since 1923 the major improvements made at CWM included:
• the establishment of the Native Medical School in 1928
• the new surgical wing opened in the late sixties
• the new Morrison and Anderson Maternity Wards in 1980
• the Extension Street East Wing in 1993
• the New Pediatrics Wing in 2000

Over the past two years there has been further improvements to the cardiac services with the opening of CWM Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in 2009 followed by improvements to the eye services with the opening of the Pacific Eye Institute building in November last year.

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Commodore Bainimarama said, “major improvements in the biomedical equipment in all our public health facilities nation wide has made the work of our very skillful and hard working health staff much easier.”

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