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N Wickham. 1976. Fiji experience.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1072475/
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The Fiji School of Medicine (FSM) has increased participation with telehealth/telemedicine in general, and specifically with the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) and the Western Pacific HealthNet(WPHNet), through the establishment of a WPHNet Centralised Triaging Service (CTS). The FSM Telehealth/Telemedicine Unit (FSMTU) will oversee the development of the CTS which is being closely coordinated with existing clinical consultation services provided through Project Aamai and the Tripler Regional Medical Center (TRMC). While the WPHNet CTS will initially be concerned with distance clinical consultation, the FSM mission encompasses community health and professional health education in a wide range of disciplines. Currently, WPHNet only serves the jurisdictions of the US-associated Pacific islands but with WPHNet CTS there will be an opportunity to include new member jurisdictions that do not have political affiliation with the USA. (e.g. Cook Is, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tonga, Vanuatu etc). In addition, although Internet technology is expanding rapidly in the region, the capacity for outside communication throughout the Pacific is quite varied. Very remote areas may currently only be able to communicate by using short wave radio. Others have telephone and/or fax while some have E-mail but not full internet capacity. The FSMTU will implement mechanisms to field requests through any of these communication avenues and so the WPHNet CTS will serve as a proxy for regional healthcare providers that do not have internet access.
The traditional Rotuman herbal pharmacopoeia consists of many plants, each of which is used in a specific way for specific disease states. The practitioners of traditional medicine are specialists recognized by the culture as having spiritual power to promote health. These individuals have been interviewed in order to determine which plants are presently in use. The healers interviewed represent a disappearing tradition which is not being passed on to the next generation. An effort has been made to record all of the plants used by all of the healers which remain in the Rotuman culture (on the island). This information is presented as a table of plant species and their respective indications.