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Fiji to host regional health ministers meet

Xinhua, March 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Health Ministers and senior health personnel from across the Pacific island country region will meet in Fiji next month to look at ways of improving health services in the region, the Fijian government announced Wednesday.

The 11th Meeting of Ministers of Health for the Pacific Island Countries will be held on April 15-17 in Fiji's Western Division, said the Department of Information.

This year's meeting will mark the 20th anniversary of the Yanuca declaration. First held on Yanuca Island, Fiji in 1995 and attended by ministers of health for the Pacific Island Countries, the inaugural meeting resulted in the Yanuca declaration.

This year's three-day meeting will review the progress and challenges of the Yanuca Declaration over the past 20 years and assess and implement outcomes and recommendations from the previous two meetings held in Honiara, Solomon Islands and Apia, Samoa respectively. The two meetings set future strategic directions in health leadership and development in the Pacific.

The biennial Meeting of Ministers of Health for the Pacific Island Countries, organized jointly by the World Health Organization and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, is the major venue to review progress in public health, identify emerging challenges and map new directions in the Pacific. The meetings build upon the vision of healthy islands, and are characterized by the generous hospitality of the host country. Endi