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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
The Friends of Fiji Health (FoFH) project has got off to a busy start in western Fiji earlier this week. Foundation trustee and leader of the delegation Dr Sunil Pillay told Indian Weekender over phone from Lautoka that the team had performed over a dozen elaborate procedures in the first two days alone.
“The response has been amazing,” Dr Pillay said. “Patients have been lining up for appointments and I am hoping we will be able to do justice to all those who have registered and are still registering.
During their two-week mission, 33 volunteer medical professionals from New Zealand are providing much needed relief to Fijian patients, including some women who have been waiting over a year for gynaecological procedures, which have been the cause of discomfort and distress.
"Gynaecological operations are carried out in Lautoka and our fellow doctors in Fiji are still doing good work. This is to supplement and complement the existing services," Dr Pillay told Indian Weekender.
The team includes five specialist gynaecologists, four anaesthetists, 18 nurses, two technicians and a physiotherapist.
FoFH is a completely independent non-governmental organisation (NGO) with humanitarian aims and no political affiliation. The Fijian government is accepting of the helping hand that FoFH is offering to the Fijian people and is making their facilities available to FoFH.
The first mission is costing about $150,000, all of which has been raised by the trustees of the foundations who are professionals originally from Fiji who now live in Auckland.
The mission has been meticulously planned and professionally managed. Dr Pillay told Indian Weekender that the process had been thought out carefully in terms of the medico legal aspects and any post-operative follow-ups on the local patients after the team returned to New Zealand.
“There would be detailed paperwork about the handover of the patients from the team of visiting doctors to the local medical team,” he said.
The first medical mission that began its work on November 27 will run up to December 12. Indian Weekender will publish a detailed report on the mission in our next issue.
The Friends of Fiji Health (FoFH) project has got off to a busy start in western Fiji earlier this week. Foundation trustee and leader of the delegation Dr Sunil Pillay told Indian Weekender over phone from Lautoka that the team had performed over a dozen elaborate procedures in the first two days...
The Friends of Fiji Health (FoFH) project has got off to a busy start in western Fiji earlier this week. Foundation trustee and leader of the delegation Dr Sunil Pillay told Indian Weekender over phone from Lautoka that the team had performed over a dozen elaborate procedures in the first two days alone.
“The response has been amazing,” Dr Pillay said. “Patients have been lining up for appointments and I am hoping we will be able to do justice to all those who have registered and are still registering.
During their two-week mission, 33 volunteer medical professionals from New Zealand are providing much needed relief to Fijian patients, including some women who have been waiting over a year for gynaecological procedures, which have been the cause of discomfort and distress.
"Gynaecological operations are carried out in Lautoka and our fellow doctors in Fiji are still doing good work. This is to supplement and complement the existing services," Dr Pillay told Indian Weekender.
The team includes five specialist gynaecologists, four anaesthetists, 18 nurses, two technicians and a physiotherapist.
FoFH is a completely independent non-governmental organisation (NGO) with humanitarian aims and no political affiliation. The Fijian government is accepting of the helping hand that FoFH is offering to the Fijian people and is making their facilities available to FoFH.
The first mission is costing about $150,000, all of which has been raised by the trustees of the foundations who are professionals originally from Fiji who now live in Auckland.
The mission has been meticulously planned and professionally managed. Dr Pillay told Indian Weekender that the process had been thought out carefully in terms of the medico legal aspects and any post-operative follow-ups on the local patients after the team returned to New Zealand.
“There would be detailed paperwork about the handover of the patients from the team of visiting doctors to the local medical team,” he said.
The first medical mission that began its work on November 27 will run up to December 12. Indian Weekender will publish a detailed report on the mission in our next issue.
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