new hospital project
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the $20 million allocated to build the new 40-bed hospital in Tafuna, just over $424,000 in expenditures have been recorded as of June 30, 2023, according to the American Samoa 2023 Recovery Plan Performance Report of the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate members who attended the Senate’s Hospital/Public Health Committee hearing yesterday morning on the Senate Resolution which recommends that Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga adopt the US Army Corps of Engineers recommendation to renovate and rehabilitate the existing LBJ...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Exhorting his fellow senators, in an emotional plea, to take their time before they make a decision concerning Senate Resolution 38-16, Senator Togiola T. A. Tulafono, yesterday, in the Senate’s regular session advised that “anytime there’s an important project like a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the official opening of the Second Regular Session of the 38th Legislature on Monday, the Senate introduced a resolution, which recommends Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga adopt the US Army Corps of Engineers’ recommendation to renovate and rehabilitate the existing LBJ...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Doctors, nurses and medical officials who are part of the subcommittee overseeing the plans for a new hospital are voicing their opposition to the project as it stands, citing that a free-standing specialty hospital “is likely to fail” and would have “high operational...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga, through a Mar. 07 memorandum, created the nine-member ‘Steering and Construction Management Committee’ to move the new hospital construction project forward more efficiently.
As previously reported by Samoa News, the Health Department now leads...