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How to Respond to Fiji’s COVID-19 Health Crisis
Prime Minister, Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama visiting the Food Ration Distribution Centre at the Naqali containment area in Nausori.
Source: Supplied Share Wednesday, 12 May 2021 07:56 AM
On 18 April 2021, Fiji marked 365 days since the last case of COVID-19 ‘outside of border quarantine transmission’.
Just when the pandemic seemed to have come under control, a new positive case of a security personnel working in a border quarantine facility detected on 17 April 2021 has now led to a series of transmissions beyond the quarantine facility.
Mandatory quarantine for all returning travellers came into effect from 28 March 2020 and mandatory testing from 23 April 2020. By 17 April 2021, Fiji had recorded 72 positive cases in total, with 65 recoveries and two deaths since the first case was reported on 19 March 2020. Between the introduction of mandatory quarantine last year and 17 April this year, 54 positive
Kamal Iyer
3 April, 2021, 7:00 pm
Metformin, sold under the brand name Glucophage among others, is
the fi rst-line medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, particularly
in people who are overweight. It is also used in the treatment of
polycystic ovary syndrome. Picture: https://www.formularywatch.com
AT 11.45pm on Friday, March 26, 2021, 30 per cent of Fiji’s population or one in every three people statistically, would have suffered a hammer-blow after listening to or watching the Minister for Health and Medical Services sound a dire warning in Parliament about the most commonly used drug, Metformin, to treat diabetes.
What Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete said in response to National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad’s End of Week Statement highlighting pitfalls about the shortage of medicine and procurement processes, including shortage of the basic diabetic drug Metformin, sent shockwaves.