The Ministry of Health and Medical Services in partnership with the Emergency Life Support team from Australia provided a four‑day training for 30 doctors and 27 nurses in developing skills for emergency care.
These 57 medical professionals were from major health facilities and sub divisional hospitals based in the four divisions.
Apart from the training, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine International Development Fund donated emergency training equipment worth more than FJ$47,000.
Professor David Smart who is from Australia says there is an established course in emergency medicine at the Fiji National University and this training complemented that course.
He says the overall aim is to improve patient care by enhancing the skills of the doctors and nurses to deal with the emergencies which includes general emergencies.
It ranges from anything from a sick child, asthma and cardiac arrest.
Smart says the fundamental purpose of the training is to provide a blueprint, a general method of dealing with undifferentiated emergencies.
They have recruited five specialists who have been recruited for the Fijian faculty and they will take over the course and run it on a long‑term basis.
The Emergency Unit at CWM Hospital attends to about 100 to 150 emergency cases on a daily basis.
