By Lagi Keresoma/ “It costs a Samoan patient NZ$980 for dialysis treatment in New Zealand and ST$600 for a Samoan overseas patient to be treated locally.”...
By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA – 17 JULY 2023: Fifteen doctors have signed Service Agreements to work for the Ministry of Heath under the conditions offered...
APIA, SAMOA – 27 JUNE 2023: The Public Service Commission says it has considered paying overtime at the normal rate of pay for all permanent employees...
The Ministry of Finance’s slow payment process has been blamed as the reason for the shortage of some of the medicines at the National Hospital’s Pharmacy. ...
By Talaia Mika APIA, SAMOA 03 JUNE 2022: The outgoing Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri was farewelled last Friday by the Ministry he...
By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA – 19 MAY 2022: A new Oxygen Generating Plant was opened today at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole National hospital with...
By Talaia Mika APIA, SAMOA – 11 MAY 2022: A thirty-six-year-old male with no known comorbidities and was unvaccinated has been recorded as Samoa’s youngest Covid-19...
By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA – 05 MAY 2022: The Minister for Health, Valasi Luapitofanua Tafito Selesele has confirmed that the current investigation by the Public...