"Don't expect to be treated like private patients while going to public hospitals"Health and Medical Services FFP Minister Rosy Akbar tells Sai Baba gathering when their motto is: 'Ethical and Compassionate Society'

23/9/2017

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Fijileaks: And you must flee with your pregnant wives from FLEAS:

http://fijivillage.com/news/Labour-Ward-at-CWM-Hospital-closed-as-officials-fear-presence-of-fleas-92rsk5

PEDICURE AND PENICILLIN:
But who can blame her. It was not long ago when her Ministerial vehicle was spotted parked in a DISABLE BAY while she was getting posh pedicure in an upmarket salon. Now, the POOR are being told to just SHUT UP and accept whatever sub-standard medical treatment they receive in public hospitals for they are NOT private paying patients

Minister of Health and Medical Services Rosy Akbar says people cannot expect to be treated like private patients while going to public facilities such as hospitals.

She made this comment while speaking during the Sai National Convention at the Ba Town Council Hall this morning.

Akbar says people coming with serious illnesses will be given priority. She urged people to be patient while waiting to be seen by doctors at public hospitals. She also says that their job as Ministers is not easy and it is not about the hefty pay which some people are commenting about.

The Health Minister says that people need to be patient and have faith in the Ministry.

Meanwhile Akbar says one of the quotes from the Sathya Sai Service Organisation of Fiji that intrigued her is to “Never turn anyone away from your door whether it is an animal or a human being” .

Akbar says this is important because it encompasses the very core value of love and compassion.

Akbar added that she came from a very poor background and has learnt a lot from it where she has moved on and helped others. She says people may accumulate a lot of properties but at the end of the day we have to realize that these are material things that hold no value. Akbar also says as a government they are trying to promote inclusivity, and not divisive society. Source: Fijivillage News, 23 September 2017

So who can blame the cartoonists:

From Fijileaks Archive, 29 October 2014:

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/pay-kubuabolas-emergency-medical-bill-now-bainimarama-ordered-fiji-mission-in-new-york-to-pay-foreign-ministers-170000-emergency-hospitalization-medical-bill

Fiji's poor told to just shut up and accept the rotten state of hospitals!!!

The Coupster who set Fiji back over 50 years by driving out
Indo-Fijian DOCTORS and NURSES is now leader of SODELPA

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Chiku

23/9/2017 11:34:07 pm

Unlike in the past under " old politicians " now under new politicians coupist Bainimarama and his cronies everyone in Fiji has become equal. So everyone will receive the same quality of medical services in the " New Fiji " of their creation. Now even Ministers will go to public hospitals and receive the same sub- standard treatment as Tomu, Dick and Hari.

Rajend Naidu

24/9/2017 01:06:27 am

Editor,
A Critic Asks The Many Questions That Need Asking.
In his usual penetrating critique of Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's plan to imposed unilateral contracts on civil servants and other policy plans for the education, health and agriculture sectors Professor Wadan Narsey poses the many questions that need to be raised and exposes the flaws inherent in Khaiyum's plans ( ' History's lessons' Fiji Times 23/09 ).
I personally am not overly surprised by Khaiyum's plan. It's not out of his character. Arbitrary decision making and imposing it by sidelining other stakeholders has been his style of " democratic " leadership since his rise to power courtesy of Frank Bainimarama and the Fiji military.
Remember the post coup period of Emmergency Rule and Rule by Decree when arbitrary rule was blatant and overt?
Remember the arbitrary dumping of the 1997 constitution and the imposed constitution of 2013? Remember the arbitrary termination of employment of civil servants at age 55?
Keeping that background and context in mind the plan to impose a contract on individual civil servants is not out of character in Khaiyum's new Fijian kingdom.
In the " true democracy " crafted by Khaiyum he makes the decision and it's for others to like it or lump it.
That's how it's been since the takeover the veneer of parliamentary democracy notwithstanding.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Navin bhan

24/9/2017 01:10:43 am

Dear Victor Lal, please do.not.tarnish your.good work.by taking the Fiji village report in this.instance that chose to.focus on a very small part.Of.the.ministers speech. I was part of.the.audience when.the minister made.this speech and.it.is.not.right.to.villify the minister.for.her.comment...You.should.ask.the.organizer.for.the.entire speech before.passing judgment or.putting it.in your website. Thank you

Dekho

24/9/2017 04:48:13 am

Minister Rosy Akbar, what about the human beings that were turned out of the door to their homes and lawfully held offices/jobs by the coupist Bainimarama and Khaiyum? Did you feel any empathy for those human beings who were treated worse than animals by your political masters? We know the answer. We know why you are a minister in the coupist Government.

Rajend Naidu

24/9/2017 04:25:27 pm

Editor,
Standing Up To Bullying
Suliasi Tamanalevu has high praise for two Pacific region PMs, Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomons and Voreqe Bainimarama, who according to Suliasi " really had spines because they defied all bullying tactics applied to them by Australia and New Zealand " ( ' PMs with A spine ' Fiji Times 24/09 ).
Bullying of any kind, by any body against any one is wrong. Bullying is wrong. And, people who have stood up against bullying - especially bullying by the State - have been seen as heroes around the world.
So I ask what about the bullying tactics applied by Bainimarama and his military men against the people of Fiji after his power grab of 2006?
How are we to regard those who stood up against this domestic political bullying?
Many PMs and Presidents and heads of State who do a lot of bullying of their own people and ignore environmental concerns at home go to the UN to make pious speeches about democracy, human rights, the rule of law and environmental protection.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Ratu link

24/9/2017 09:09:00 pm

Rabuka was right when he said "if I'm a snake then Voreqe is a bigger one."
Moral of story. Both are snakes and snakes do have spines but used for the wrong reasons.
Rabuka stuffed up on so many issues including his two coups, his womanising, his ego and collapse of the national bank of fiji.
Voreqe ditto ditto ditto. Huge pay rises for the military and himself, pathetic condition of hospitals, nepotism, and now his fraud on climate change which is a hoax. As one top scientist fm the University of London Michael Grubb published in Nsture Grisvience journal a few days ago the science on climate change is wrong.
Climate models used by the notorious UN panel on Climate Change were wrong.
What spine is there when a man lies to his people and the world?

Rajend Naidu

24/9/2017 11:21:52 pm

Editor,
Doing What's Right.
We learn from The Economist article ' Kenya's Supreme Court explains why it annulled last month's presidential poll' ( Sept 20 ) that the judges complete ruling " As an indictment of the electoral commission and a statement of the supremacy of law, it was searing and inspiring. The constitutional mandate placed on the commission, said David Maraga, the Chief Justice, " Is a heavy yet noble one" that it had failed to fulfill ".
" ... The judiciary now seems set on a collision course with the executive. A day before issuing the ruling, pro-Kenyetta protests closed a few roads in Nairobi, the capital and Mr Maraga denounced them as " intended to intimidate the judiciary". He was, he said, prepared to pay the ultimate price to protect the constitution".
Now that is the kind of public office holders we need in Fiji to keep our country genuinely democratic.
The Economist article begins by asking " What makes for an acceptable election? That is the question Kenyans must consider during the next month or so[ when they return to the polls as ordered by the court ruling]".
That's also the question Fijians must consider when they head to the next post coup elections in 2018.
Remember in the Kenyan elections the international observers had found its conduct acceptable but the court ruled otherwise.
It's up to the local people to keep a proper tab on the election process.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Jasneel Singh

25/9/2017 12:26:31 pm

Rosy Akbar seems to forget that it is the taxpayers of the country that fund the very hospitals that's she's talking about, as well as the exorbitant salaries that some of these ministers are paid. The AG is blabbing about how the private sectors workers are showing interest in joining the public sector, however, as per Rosy Akbar, it's not about the hefty salaries. If it was the private sector, it would be about the salaries and performance and she would have been terminated.

Refugee

25/9/2017 10:24:50 pm

There, the Akbar simplified the theory of ‘social stratification’ – those who can and those cannot afford PRIVATE Hospitals!!! Simple – the bourgeoisie and proletarian, the haves and the haves not, the minority rich (including the HEFTY paid Ministers) and the majority poor.

We are all Fijians and we are all equal- bull-shit.

A true Fiji First would have given the PRIVATE hospitals a run for their money...

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