FEMAT Field Hospital in Lautoka will attend to all non COVID cases

FEMAT Field Hospital in Lautoka will attend to all non COVID cases

By Vijay Narayan
Monday 10/05/2021
The Fiji Emergency Medical Assistance Team Field Hospital. [image: Dr. Waqainabete/Twitter]

The Fiji Emergency Medical Assistance Team Field Hospital in Lautoka is to treat the cases the hospitals would normally expect to treat like acute cases, accidents, childbirths, and other non-elective surgeries.

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says they are doing this because they don’t want to put non-infected patients in the same hospitals with infected patients.

He says there is too much risk of transmission, and they cannot have the medical staff going from one group of patients to the other.

Doctor Fong says while the field hospital is technically only for emergency care, they will see whoever comes through the gate, aside from any patients showing COVID-like symptoms.

He says maternity care will also be done in the FEMAT Hospital while deliveries will be done on board the MV Veivueti.

Doctor Fong says further care of sick mothers and babies will be in the new Ba Hospital.

He also says with the Lautoka Hospital now fully dedicated as a COVID care facility, they want to thank groups like the Denarau Corporation Limited for helping them provision the personnel who are living and working in the hospital, as well as the private doctors who will soon be offering treatments and consultations to those who would normally go to public hospitals for non-COVID care.

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