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Ajay Bhai Amrit
17 July, 2021, 2:10 pm
The Ministry of Health
staff members give
jabs to motorist
during the Vaccination
Drive In at Albert
Park in Suva.
Picture: ATU RASEA
Greetings readers as we all continue down this scary and dangerous path fighting the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic.
It seems we may have almost missed the boat on a nationwide lockdown as the infection rates have exploded Fiji wide, while our leaders continue to sleep on the job for about three months as the pandemic rages and cases escalate.
To sum up Fiji’s record today, we have one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world against women and children, and now one of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections in the world per one million population.
Arieta Vakasukawaqa
FWCC co-ordinator Shamima Ali speaking during a virtual conference. Picture: SCREENGRAB/UNITY FIJI
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has recorded 2000 cases of domestic violence between April and June this year.
This, according to centre co-ordinator Shamima Ali during a virtual conference on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people yesterday.
“There has been a huge escalation of violence against women,” she said.
“Talking about this from last April, in a year we normally record 2000 cases.
“But from April this year to June 27, we have attended to 2000 cases.
The centre could not conduct face to face counselling with victims of domestic violence because of the COVID-19 pandemic and Ms Ali said 70 per cent of the 2000 cases involved women who were abused in their homes.
Susan Grey of FEMLinkPacific.
Photo: Supplied/FEMLinkPacific
The urgent request came amid daily record infections and deaths from the Delta variant of the virus - 636 new cases and six more deaths were confirmed by the Health Ministry yesterday.
NGO femLINKpacific executive director Susan Grey said their work has been made difficult without the release of clear amd detailed data. We just note the lack of disaggregated data for us from the government to make interventions, to help with support for civil societies and women s organisations, Grey said. We support diverse women and girls, we need to see that data, the impact, say for instance, the cases that we hear health secretary Dr James Fong announce, there is no data that basically breaks it down.
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