Pacemaker service

FORMER Fiji resident, Dr Vijay Kapadia says there is an urgent need to have a pacemaker service at CWM Hospital to ensure that we save more lives.

The general and international cardiologist based at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Australia says that arrangements for pacemakers were also made in 2017 for more Fijians but nothing came through from the powers that be.

Yes Dr Fong, please speed up the work on the 100 pacemakers and a more stable plan for the cath lab to facilitate Dr Kapadia’s noble aspirations.

If the Fijian Government can invest $6m to buy 51 per cent of the Fijian Drua’s shareholding rights, then the purchase of pacemakers is crucial.

I believe Fijians’ health is paramount compared with sports investment. Finally, please take heed of Dr Fiona Riddell’s health advice as she has been visiting Fiji since 2001, especially in regards to the CWM and Lautoka hospitals. Our health is our greatest wealth so please use the taxpayers’ dollars.

RAYMOND SINGH

Golf Links, Lautoka

Calculated risks

AS per your paper’s report (7/10/2022), FijiFirst party general secretary Aiyaz SayedKhaiyum has warned party provisional candidates of the financial consequences if they don’t make it to Parliament.

I can only hope that all the other political parties in the race can also follow suit and sound out similar words of caution to their respective provisional candidates. While many may frown upon Mr Sayed-Khaiyum’s warning, I take it as quite bold and courageous.

Such warnings could potentially save careers and livelihoods.

Only the brave and determined will be able to make that final decision to stand or not to stand, for any political party.

Such warnings, or simply advice, will also help the parties eliminate the half-hearted and the not-so-sure type candidates.

Signing off, I would also sound out a word of advice to the readers; do not interpret this letter politically.

I have seen some unsuccessful candidates of various parties after the last two elections.

Mr Sayed-Khaiyum’s advice rings true when I think of them!

Risks are less painful when calculated! DONALD SINGH Lautoka

Harbour, power cuts to two areas were scheduled from 5am to 7pm on consecutive days.

Are not these cuts in fact power rationing?

I believe if the many daily power cuts are not due to rationing, it is obvious that EFL does not know what it is doing.

Does urgent power line maintenance, on a rotational basis, occur in other countries? I think not.

So, is the public being subjected to power rationing, or not?

SUE CAUTY

Pacific Harbour