A project management team has completed the asbestos audit for the facilities that sustained damages through a fire at the Lautoka Hospital in December last year.
Areas that have been identified to contain asbestos risks have been isolated while the Ministry of Health is in the process of engaging an appropriate company to undertake the removal of asbestos at the facility.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services has been actively engaged in ensuring that there are minimum disruptions to the service delivery at the Lautoka Hospital.
A total of six operating theatres at the hospital sustained damage during the fire.
The Lautoka Hospital’s labor and minor operating theatres have been converted into normal operating theatres which are being used as fully operational theatres to cater for the surgical loads and emergency cases.
Meanwhile the complicated surgical cases and orthopaedic cases have been referred to the CWM Hospital.
The Ministry says the surgical teams from Lautoka Hospital have undertaken surgeries at the Sigatoka and Rakiraki hospitals based on their outreach programs while the CWM Hospital surgical teams have also undertaken an outreach program for a week at the Sigatoka Hospital where more than 80 patients on the waiting list have had their surgeries.
The surgeries that were rescheduled due to the fire last year have been attended to by the doctors at the CWM Hospital and Lautoka Hospital.
