ENT PACIFICA Programme

International Health agencies and those in the Pacific have identified a serious lack of resources and services in the provision of Ear, Nose and Throat and Head & Neck services in the islands. About thirty percent of all hospital attendances are ENT related. These include hearing loss in 30% of children and serious ear infections leading to brain abscess and death and head and neck abscesses in diabetic patients leading to septicaemia and death as well as tumours which if treated in a timely manner could save lives. At present there is an estimated one ENT doctor for every 1 million persons whereas the WHO recommendation is one per one hundred thousand.
The foundation is supporting a post graduate diploma course in ENT, Head & Neck which will address this shortage of specialist doctors and wishes to raise $50,000 a year to support this program.

Pictured: Professor Suren Krishnan in Fiji with Dr Dalina Nero from Truk, Federated States of Micronesia.
Post Graduate ENT Diploma program at Colonial War Memorial Hospital
Her study supported by $10,000 scholarship from DREAMIN Foundation