MARSHALL ISLANDS PROMISES SUBSIDY FOR HEALTH PROGRAM Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/17/2001 - 00:00
MAJURO, Marshall Islands (June 29, 2001 – Marshall Islands Journal) -A solution is available to the current funding crisis that has temporarily halted the RMI’s off-island medical referral program. For once in the Marshall Islands, we have a short term problem with a long term solution, instead of the other way around, Marshall Islands Social Security Administration board vice chairman Jack Niedenthal told the Journal.
He said that while the health system will be on shaky ground until October 1, MISSA has a firm commitment from the government that beginning in the next fiscal year there will be a substantial subsidy for the referral program and for equipment and drugs that are sorely needed in the hospital.