BSP Upgrades Nursing Station to Improve Service
The BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP), has completed its latest Branch Community Project by constructing a sheltered patient’s waiting area and other general maintenance works at the Namau Nursing Station.
This was a project chosen by its Ba and Tavua branch staff in consultation with the Ministry of Health.
BSP Country Head Haroon Ali said: “Our values inspire our Corporate Social Responsibility programmes from delivering banking services to all Fijians, including those in remote locations, to our Annual Community Project initiatives that leave a lasting benefit for communities.”
Once the Namau Nursing Station was approved as a community project, staff from Ba and Tavua branches mobilised to deliver the new sheltered waiting area, upgraded the ablution blocks and also installed water tanks to allow the facility to operate when water supply was disrupted.
Mr Ali thanked BSP staff who had contributed towards the successful delivery of this im
portant project for the benefit of residents in Namau and surrounding areas.
The Senior Medical Officer Ba, Dr Emali Tuirara said: “Prior to BSP’s generous donation, patients would have to sit around outside, under the trees, in the hot sun or rain, while waiting to
be seen by the nurse.”
The Namau Nursing station serves a population of 3000 residents spread across several villages and settlements that are primarily engaged in agriculture and livestock farming.
This is the latest BSP Community Project in a series of similar
initiatives that complement the Ministry of Health’s strategic imperatives to improve rural health care services.
Other recently completed projects at rural nursing stations were in Nawaicoba, Nadrau and Coqeloa.