Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has received 5-million dollars from Taiwan yesterday. The funds are for Kilu’ufi Hospital in Malaita and Helena Goldie Hospital in Western Province.
Patients diagnosed with non-communicable disease are occupying almost 1-hundred percent of beds in the medical and surgical wards at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara.
A christian should not only look clean and healthy but should also live a healthy lifestyle. Reverend Philimon Riti made this statement at the Seventh Day Adventist Centenary Celebration at Viru, Western Province last week.
Concerned citizens group, Forum Solomon Islands International, FSII, has praised the Ministry of Health and Medical Service’s plan to fight cervical cancer. FSII made the statement yesterday after the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services has refuted claims of a leprosy outbreak, saying the increase in cases may only be due to improved health education campaigns.
The current diarrhea outbreak in the country has claimed four lives in Yandina, Russell Islands, Central Province. Yandina clinic registered nurse Agnes Vili says the four deaths are children below 5 years old.
The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand is working with the New Zealand government to build a state-of-the-art eye care centre in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
Malu’u Area Health Centre in North Malaita has recorded 2-hundred and 52 diarrhea cases since the first case was detected early last month. Malu’u Clinical and Acting Community Health Consultant Nurse, Lawrence Irobaea confirmed the figures to SIBC’s Malu’u stringer Lensley Kwaimani today.
Kokonut Pacific Solomon Islands is assisting the Ministry of Health and Medical Services along with health development partners to prevent the spread of a deadly diarrhea outbreak that has so far claimed at least 18 lives.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services will launch its National campaign against Trachoma on Wednesday this week in Gizo, Western province. The theme of the launching is: “YUMI DRIKIM MERESIN FO STOPEM TRACHOMA”.
The Malaita Provincial Government and its National MP’s have been called upon to help the Roman Catholic Church improve the deteriorating conditions of its two clinics in Small Malaita. Father Peter Kevin is looking after the clinic at the Tarapaina Parish in Small Malaita.
The absence of a medical laboratory at Buala Hospital in Isabel province has presented difficulties in identifying what caused the recent diarrhea outbreak in the province.
More women than men are living with HIV in Solomon Islands, says the 2014 Solomon Islands Global Aids Response Report. According to the report, eleven women, and three men have been diagnosed with HIV.
Buala hospital in Isabel Province has confirmed admitting diarrhea cases of children who are mostly six months old and 10 years olds. Nurse-In-Charge at Buala Hospital’s Outpatient, Martin Gavira told SIBC News today, more than 20 critical diarrhea cases have been admitted at the hospital and the…
Diarrhoea has claimed the lives of 16 children and affected over one thousand people in the past two weeks. The Ministry of Health and Medical Services, MHMS, is therefore declaring a nationwide diarrhoea outbreak. Dr.
An outbreak of diarrhea in six provinces is threatening the lives of hundreds of children, and health authorities are concerned that patients are presenting too late to benefit from life-saving medicines.
A three day Training of Trainers workshop on Nursery Management of Fruit Trees and Vegetables has started at the King George Sixth Taiwanese Technical Mission Farm in Honiara today.
Children in North Guadalcanal Constituency have received medical treatment for measles and rubella diseases. Reporting this to SIBC News today stringer Nathaniel Manu says the treatment program has started over the weekend and was carried out by the Guadalcanal Province health division.
Residents along the Bahai and Saint Barnabas Cathedral highway in Honiara thanked responsible authorities for a job well done in sealing the dusty stretch of road which had posed heath threats to their lives over the past few weeks.
A medical health promotion team from Guadalcanal Province and Red Cross volunteers is currently on diarrhea awareness campaign to the Guadalcanal Plains.
