Australian medical assistance teams treat over 1000 patients

Australian medical assistance teams which left the country this week treated more than one thousand patients during their service in the country after Monster Cyclone Winston.

The team included doctors, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists.

They worked alongside local health teams and treated a total of 1,768 people in evacuation centres, villages and settlements in Rakiraki, Ba, Ovalau and Tailevu.

Australia has also given the Ministry of Health $23,000 worth of medicine supplies.

The medicines include pain relief, oral rehydration and antibiotics.