MSF Provides Paediatric Support For Kiribati

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing paediatric support on Kiribati as the remote Central Pacific nation finds itself without any specialist paediatricians.

Facing one of the highest mortality rates in children under five globally, Kiribati’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services, approached MSF at the end of last year with an urgent request for temporary paediatric support. This was to allow the country time to recruit a consultant paediatrician after its last remaining paediatrician left.

Under the arrangement an Australian-trained paediatrician, Dr Joanne Clarke has been working at the national referral hospital, Tungaru Central Hospital, since arriving in Kiribati’s capital, Tarawa, in mid-January.

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Source: MSF Australia