Nacula Village Gets Boost From Australia
The Nacula Village Nursing Station in the Yasawa Group received a major emergency response equipment last week.
Saturday 12 November 2022 | 15:19
Students of Nacula Primary school in Yasawa during their first aid training provided by the Heroes Need Heroes (HNH) a registered Australian charity.
The Nacula Village Nursing Station in the Yasawa Group received a major emergency response equipment last week.
Coordinator Michael Fawcett, said this was made possible after a one-year-old child unfortunately drowned outside the Matacawalevu Village in the Yasawa group last October.
This tragic death devastated the community so a plea came from the village to their doctor, nurse, and paramedic friends who volunteer with Heroes Need Heroes (HNH) a registered Australian charity to provide first aid (CPR) training and water safety awareness in nearby villages and schools.
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Mr Fawcett added villagers had the vision of raising funds for life-saving equipment including an Automated External Defibrillators (AED) to give the best chance of survival.
The health clinic AED is 45 minutes away by boat when the water is calm or three hours during stormy weather. Thus, the idea of a GoFundMe was developed by Trent Ramsay.
“The people are requesting donations to fund-raise for an AED to give every person in the area the chance to have their life saved. It’s a nice thing to help someone, it’s pretty amazing to help save their life,” Mr Fawcett said.
“The fundraiser we are running to donate emergency equipment on the Yasawa Group of Islands. Next year we hope to raise $100,000 to rebuild a new clinic in Yasawa to service more than 10,000 people living in the area.
Fijian born Dr Sofia Zania who works in Brisbane, Australia who also organised the training in Matacawalevu said: “They need so much [in Fiji] that we take for granted but we can start with even just a little bit and it will make so much difference for those communities”.
The team of Australian health professionals has been donating their time and equipment to Fiji since 2014.
They have worked with the Ministry of Health, Vinaka Fiji and the Australian High Commission in Suva.
Meanwhile, HNH has been supporting Fiji since the chapter started in 2014 and trained thousands of Fijians in First Aid, Pre-Hospital Care, and donated over $500,000 worth of equipment in conjunction with sponsors, Vinaka Fiji, Ministry of Health, and the Australian High Commission.
HNH has been helping to organise AED’s and other life-saving equipment into the ambulances, remote health clinics and now the dream is into all villages.
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