NZ partners with TISI Sangam to provide 190 graduate and retired nurses to the Health Ministry

NZ partners with TISI Sangam to provide 190 graduate and retired nurses to the Health Ministry

By Naveel Krishant
Friday 06/08/2021
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TISI Sangam Fiji and New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade have announced a new partnership to support the Ministry of Health by providing approximately 190 graduate and retired nurses to hospitals in Suva and Lautoka for a period of three months.

New Zealand will provide TISI Sangam with around $900,000 in meeting the costs of this deployment.

New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Fiji Jonathan Curr welcomed the new partnership forged to support the secondment of nurses into the Ministry of Health.

Curr says the graduate nurse interns will make a substantial contribution to Fiji’s healthcare efforts and boost public health operations in the COVID-19 response, lessening the strain on the health care workforce.

The Secretary General of TISI Sangam Damend Goundar says we are living in very challenging times and the pandemic has strained medical and other resources needed to contain and suppress the spread of COVID-19.

He says it is their duty to assist and provide as much support as possible to overcome and control the virus.

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