OFF ISLAND MEDICAL CARE
Apia SAMOA — In Samoa families are increasingly choosing to send patients to India or Fiji rather than New Zealand to avoid high medical expenses.
I presented and compared the costs of New Zealand and India and for example, a cardiac lesion, it would cost only US$7000 in India, but I think it's...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was during a House Health Committee hearing with the Director of the State Medicaid Office, Sandra King-Young, that she said the reason why Hawaii does not allow patients under the referral program to be treated at their hospitals anymore was because the American...
Dear Editor,
“Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt hi name together” - Psalms 34:3 This is someone’s thankful heart for God’s presence with us, everywhere we go.
My name is Laaloi Fulu Lili’o from Fagasa. It was early last year that I noticed that the beauty of our country was not very...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid Office has stopped paying for escorts for patients that are referred to New Zealand except in certain cases.
The move comes because of incidents involving escorts and some patients which have put the referral programme in jeopardy.
Sandra King...