Nauru RON Hospital
In the most recent survey,
conducted between 2007 and 2012, 97 per cent of births in Nauru
were attended by qualified health staff. In 2010, 88 per cent of
the country's population had access to an improved water source and
65 per cent to adequate sanitation facilities. The most recent
survey, conducted in the period 2000-11, reports that Nauru has 50
pharmaceutical staff per 100,000 people.
In 1999 Nauru's two hospitals, the
government-run Nauru General Hospital and the private Nauru
Phosphate Corporation Hospital, amalgamated into the state-run
Republic of Nauru Hospital (RONH) which provides free medical and
dental treatment for all citizens.
RONH is located in Yaren and
provides basic medical care; special treatment is limited to
diabetes and other obesity-related diseases at the Naoero Public
Health Centre, run by the Department of Public Health. Anyone with
serious illnesses and injuries that cannot be treated on the island
must be sent by air to Australia. There is no pharmaceutical
manufacturing or independent drug regulatory authority in Nauru.
The Republic of Nauru Pharmacy imports pharmaceuticals from
Australia and the Netherlands and suffers from frequent shortages
in supply, as well as disruptions in distribution. As part of the
government's National Sustainable Development Strategy, the Nauru
NCD Action Plan was initiated in 2009 to combat high levels of
diabetes and obesity by encouraging physical activity and
nutritional education, and discouraging alcohol and tobacco
use.
No fully formed mental health
policy or act existed in Nauru at the time of writing, although a
draft mental health policy has been developed. The island is a
member of the WHO Pacific Islands Mental Health Network and has
recently launched a Mental Health Toll-Free Help Line. Facilities
on the island consist of 9.8 mental health outpatient facilities
and 19.5 psychiatric beds in general hospitals per 100,000
people.
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