Public Health in Fiji

The main goal of the project is to support the functions of the District Nurse that are essential for both productivity and improving health and wellness. And provides support to increase the self-efficacy of 15 community health workers (CHWs) to be productive health providers within their communities that span between Dawasamu District and Bureiwai District. It is well-established that the CHWs are crucial to both optimizing quality of care and addressing increased patient volume.  GVI aides in human resources management and supporting CHW service delivery and encourage District Nurse role in continuous learning opportunities for her staff. All efforts aim to achieve the vision “The best medicine of all is to teach people not to need it.” A community health worker (CHW) is a community liaison between the village they live in and the district nurse. 

One area we had been focusing on is training the 15 Community Health Workers from Dawasamu and Bureiwai Districts on utilising data collated through their patient registers and transferring it into pivot tables, to produce a data analysis report, to assist with monitoring and analysing ailments and medication. The report produced allows the District Nurse to examine patient data more easily to identify the root causes of common infection cases for strategic disease intervention. The report helps community health workers to prioritise their preventative health measures by identifying their top infections within their village and conducting targeted health interventions.  We are looking forward to continuing training once the COVID restrictions are lifted and updating the data analysis report with information collated over the last nine months and using the data to highlight what training sessions are needing to benefit the communities.