The Ministry of Health says they will be looking into the claims made by a resident in relation to the services provided by the Nadi Hospital.
Narend Chand of Maigania Nadi told Fijivillage that he took his 23-year-old son to the hospital at around 12am because his son was complaining of severe stomach ache last Monday.
Chand claims that he waited for two hours but they were not seen by the doctors.
He also claims that there were other patients who were at the hospital from 8pm.
Chand claims that when he questioned about the doctors at around 2.45am, one of the doctors came out and told him that they will attend to the emergency cases first and outpatients can wait even if it takes for them to wait for another 4 hours.
He claims that there were no emergency cases at the time.
Chand also claims that the behavior of a nurse was also unpleasant as she was rude to some of the patients.
He says that his son started vomiting and he had to go to a pharmacy to buy the medicine without a doctor’s prescription.
He has written a letter to the Ministry of Health in relation to his concerns.
We have also raised the concern with the Ministry and Spokesperson, Anshoo Mala Chandra confirmed they have received an email from Chand and the Ministry has taken note of the issue.
