Unpaid overtime for kitchen staff leaves hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital without meals
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital, the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in the capital, Apia, went without meals after kitchen staff failed to show up



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