Healthcare in our communities

The Rotary Club of Savusavu beginning Q4 2021, has succeeded in the repair and upgrade of (3) Remote Healthcare Facilities in our province of Cakaudrove. They are now better able to provide the basic healthcare needs for each of their vast areas of service!

Bagasau, Naweni and Navakaka Health Centres can now better service the basic healthcare needs of ~6000 people in their areas. Each Centre treats 15-45 patients per day (including child births)- with the support of 9 Community Health Workers who ,are untrained local volunteers that are the first point of contact in every injury or illness emergency). We can all now proudly tout that because of this project, another 28) CHWs have now successfully passed the training & received their Internationally 

recognized 3-year ‘Basic First Aid/CPR Certification’ by the Red Cross Society of Fiji.

These remote health centres are also tasked with non-emergency services such as vaccine deployment, maternity care, critical ongoing life-support such as dressing sores of invalid/elderly diabetes patients and administering shots for up to 50 children, 3x/week who suffer from rheumatoid heart disease, they rely heavily on their Community Health Workers, who walk 3-5 hours a day, 2-3 days a week on tracks or unpaved

roads, to service their clients. 

This was accomplished with support of generous our sponsors including FOFH (Friends of Fiji Health, NZ), the Carner Family, Mr. & Mrs. Minal Gulabdas, Christine & Greg Van Horn, and many others.