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Issue No: 680; 16 April 2001
The people of Fiji continue to suffer from lack of essential drugs and lack of space in the country's mortuaries as the Qarase regime ministers continue with their local and foreign tours. Today's Daily Post reports that the nation's largest public hospitals are out of essential life saving drugs. This situation is reportedly continuing since many weeks. Another newspaper, the Fiji Sun today reports that all the mortuaries in the central division have been full for some time. Last week a newspaper showed a picture of a body lying outside the mortuary at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. The Health Ministry has responded by saying that it wants the mortuary service of the public hospitals privatised. The incompetence of the Qarase regime has been displayed over and over again during the last 8 months. So far, job losses during the Qarase reign has exceed 20,000 people. Poverty has risen to over 50% of Fiji's households. Malnutrition, child mortality, school dropouts, suicides, crime, squatter, evictions, dispossession, landlessness and general breakdown in the social fabric of Fiji is unprecedented. The Qarase regime's biggest problem is that it is collectively incompetent in understanding the magnitude of the problems. The problem of incompetence is compounded by the fact that most of the regime's ministers are racists, and many, including Qarase, are corrupt. |
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People's Coalition Government - Fiji Islands |
