COVID-19 Travel Advice The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern (VOC), named Omicron, on the basis of advice from WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (hereafter referred to as TAG-VE) on 26 November 2021. Following the group’s announcement an increasing number of countries are introducing temporary travel measures, including…Read More

Aliti Kunatoga was always interested in investigating patterns and causes of disease and injury and helping people understand what epidemiology is all about. This led her to join the Fiji National University’s (FNU) College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (CMNHS) as a public health student. Kunatoga graduated with a Bachelor of Public Health in…Read More

      Today, the Prime Minister of Fiji, Minister of iTaukei Affairs, Sugar Industry and Forests, the Hon. Rear Admiral (Retired) Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama officiated at the graduation ceremony of a Rural Womens’ Entrepreneurship Training Programme, at Nairukuruku village, within the Tikina Matailobau, in Naitasiri. Launched in March this year, the training programme, a…Read More

Nazreen Bano holds a lifelong passion for giving back to the community and follows her mother’s dream by becoming a Fiji National University (FNU) graduate and beginning a career as a Dietician in 2009. The Supervisory Dietician at Taveuni Medical Subdivision attained her Diploma in Dietetics and Nutrition in 2005 from the then Fiji School…Read More

Receiving doctor’s kit toy sets as a present during the holidays was an annual tradition for Dr Sheetal Swashtika Singh and one that gradually developed her interest in the medical field. She eventually swapped her toys for a real stethoscope and medical qualifications to treat and care for the sick. Dr Singh shared that being…Read More