new doctors

Santo and Northern Provincial Hospital welcomes young doctors

They arrived safely to Northern Provincial hospital (NPH) this month, having studied in Cuba for seven years. “We have been looking forward to having these young doctors join us since they returned from Cuba last year,” says Hospital Medical Superintendent, Dr Andy Ilo. “Now they are finally here.”

18 new Ni-Vanuatu doctors begin work in Vanuatu

Eighteen Ni-Vanuatu graduates from medical schools in Cuba, Fiji and China took their Hippocrates’s Oath in front of the Acting Director General of Health, George Taleo and senior clinicians, Dr Hensley Garae and Dr Basil Leodoro last week.

The ceremony marks the beginning of their two years internship program before they receive their license to practice as medical doctors.