The Government of New Zealand has offered SAT$5 million to refurbish the nurses’ hall located within the Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital compound at Motootua. The hall will provide accommodation for nurses working at the hospital.This was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Valasi Tafito.
It has been over a decade now for 63-year-old Faleula Fitiao Saina to pick up rubbish around his community and from his village of Siumu across Cross Island road that's close to 20 kilometers of walking, and to Apia.Mr. Saina cuts a forlorn figure on the roadside armed with a plastic bag, occasio.
Last Thursday 30 November 2023 I clocked out as an employee and editor of the Samoa Observer after five years and five months.But I remember vividly my arrival in Samoa on Sunday 24 June 2018, having transited through Brisbane, Australia a day before from Port Moresby, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) .
The Ministry of Health will investigate a claim by a mother that a prescription of lymphatic filariasis tablets led to her son getting seriously ill and hospitalised.Late last month Leogia Siaosi of Leauvaa told the Samoa Observer that her son had to be admitted to the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Natio.
Tina Luafalealo is still nursing her injuries at the national hospital, which were sustained during the fatal Malifa bus crash last Monday that claimed a life and led to multiple passengers getting injured. A mother to two toddlers aged 2 and 3, she is gutted that she has to spend White Sunday at.