HEALTH EQUIPMENT RECEIVED LAST WEEK PART OF U.N.I.C.E.F’s PROGRAM

He adds, the training and health equipments will assist the Ministry of Health and Medical Services achieve Millennium Development Goal Number Four to reduce Child Mortality Rate and MDG Five on Maternal Health.

“The Millennium Development Goals Four and Five – the former about child mortality while the latter is about women’s mortality – which targets that Solomon Islands have to reduce mortality in these two groups, so the programme is also trying to achieve those targets, and like I said it’s not just the handing over of this equipment but trainings also.”

The equipment includes a ‘Multi-parameter patient monitor for the Nursery ward and a delivery bed for the hospital’s labour ward.

SIBC News understands Tulagi and Kirakira Hospitals have been recipients of similar donations from the New Zealand Government, facilitated through the UNICEF.