A first Pop-Up clinic fully funded by Women’s Fund Fiji has opened at MHCC, Suva, due to the demand for counselling, family planning support, clinical support, and legal support services by community members.
The clinic is free and run by Medical Services Pacific.
305 females, 185 males, 1 member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community visited the Pop-Up clinic to access non-communicable disease screening, Cancer screening, and Sexually Transmitted Infection screening and blood testing between March and May this year.
Majority of the clients who accessed the services accessed MSP’s services for the first time.
MSP provides a broad range of health care, counselling and social services, including public awareness and educational programs with a specialised focus on sexual and reproductive health, and has developed a comprehensive and integrated service for survivors/victims of sexual assault and domestic violence which includes emergency care, and ongoing medical, nursing, counselling and legal support.
MSP’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Officer and COVID-19 Program Coordinator, Ana Fofole says since its inception, the Pop-Up Clinic has provided services to Fijians from all around the Central Division as far as Namosi, and from civil servants to market vendors.
She says the new Pop-Up Clinic allows to reach members of the public who may not have acquired the services in the past, and thanked the Carpenters Fiji Management team for providing with the opportunity to operate from their complex. Some of the services provided at the Pop-Up Clinic are inclusive of; Shared Health Records clinical services like family planning consultation, pap-smear test, providing family planning clinical services to young girls and women, breast examination, NCD screening such as blood pressure measure, blood testing, body mass index( BMI) measure, and glucose testing.
Counselling, prostrate consultation and Integrated Management Childhood Illness services is also being provided.
Discussions are underway for Pop-Up Clinics to be setup in Lautoka, Labasa, and Fiji National Universities.
