The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MOH) is a government ministry of
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consis ...
responsible for overseeing
Fiji's Healthcare system. Its head office is in Dinem House in
Toorak,
Suva
Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Div ...
. The current
Minister for Health and Medical Services is
Ifereimi Waqainabete who was appointed to the position in November 2018.
Responsibilities
The Ministry is tasked to provide quality
healthcare
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health pro ...
to the people of Fiji. It does this through its 3 main Divisional
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergen ...
s, 18 Sub-divisional Hospitals and over 80
Health Centres in which are operated by divisional and sub-divisional departments of the Ministry of Health. The Ministry is also tasked in enacting public
health policies
Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(Web archive)/ref> According to the ...
and overseeing the implementation of public health programmes.
Ministers
See also
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Health in Fiji
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COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
The COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case of the disease in Fiji was reported on 19 March 2020 in Lautok ...
References
External links
Ministry of Health and Medical Services
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consis ...
Government of Fiji
Government ministries of Fiji
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