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May 8 2022

Today the U.S. Embassy Chargé D’Affaires Tony Greubel formally handed over critical care consumables to Permanent Secretary Dr. James Fong of Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services to boost the Fiji Government’s campaign against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hand hygiene auditor training for a standardized approach

Infection, prevention, and control (IPC) focal points from Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Kiribati, and Solomon Islands successfully completed a 10-hour hand hygiene Gold standard auditors training. They are now recognised as the first cohort of IPC focal points in the Pacific as Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) Gold Standard Compliance Auditors & Assessors, and are now able to train general auditors making the program more sustainable at country level.

The training was held virtually during the first week of April and was facilitated by Kate Ryan, HHA Manager and Program coordinator.

Showcasing nurses leadership in emergency clinical leadership and management

Fiji National One Health and AMR Workshop

A 2 day workshop with the main purpose of strengthening the One Health approach to tackling Antimicrobial resistance in Fiji. SPC is facilitating this wiht funding support via the EU multi-partner funding for Phase 2 COVID-19 Preparedness and Response and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Committee (NARC) including Fiji Min

February 11 2022

The Pacific Community (SPC) is deploying a team of health experts from the Public Health Division to support requests made by Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), to assist with its COVID-19 preparedness and response.

Today a team of 5 health experts are travelling to Kiribati, while another 2 will travel to Tonga on Tuesday 15^th February.

PGCFE Refresher Training for Fiji

The PGCFE course under the SHIP-DDM capacity development program was started in Fiji back in 2019.The Fiji cohort completed Modules 1,2 and 3 between 2019-2020.However due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the course was on hold temporarily. This refresher training is being implemented to review the important topics from the previous three modules before progressing to the final two modules of the course.

Microbiology training to strengthen AMR Surveillance & Control & shipping of infectious substances training

Microbiology Training
to Strengthen AMR Surveillance and Control and IPC in Fiji (Labasa): 03 – 14
August 2020

July 15 2021

Last month, the Pacific Community (SPC) supplied 20 Hamilton ventilators to 11 Pacific Islands Countries and Territories (PICTs). These ventilators will enable PICTs to manage critically ill patients that need respiratory care.

PICTs receiving these ventilators are the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, the Republic of Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

May 6 2021

The Pacific Community’s (SPC) Public Health Division (PHD) has published a handbook for health professionals and educators on Pacific guidelines for healthy infants and children under five years of age.

May 5 2021

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