The 7-day typhoid lock-down operation in Togovere Village in Ra has been completed where the main water supply and the water supply system to the individual houses were improved and each household in the village has been given a filter bucket for safe drinking water.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the Western health team also helped provide a 10,000 litre tank to help cater for water during dry spells.
He also says sick patients were identified early and referred for admission and appropriate care.
The Permanent Secretary further says the Social Welfare Office together with the Fisheries Department had assisted the village where the teams had gathered the villagers shopping lists and money and did their shopping for them.
Dr. Fong says they assisted 66 families by providing them with food and supplies from the supermarkets.
He has also acknowledged the effort and commitment demonstrated by the village leaders and community members in seeking, and complying with the lockdown initiative.
Dr Fong says they acknowledge the coordinated response from the Roko Tui Ra and the Office of the Provincial Administrator Ra, Police, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social welfare, Ministry of Fisheries, and Water Authority of Fiji’s rural water support initiative, Give Clean Water Fiji and UNICEF.
