Category: Healthcare
The State pays AUD 60 million to Caledonia
This money is intended to plug the holes in the local pension fund, the hospital and various social expenses… The civil servants’ pension fund is insolvent. November’s pension payments were threatened. Disabled...
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Polynesia: Dengue epidemic on the horizon
Health authorities warn the public According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 130 countries...
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Traditional medicine at university
A course in ethno-medicine will be offered next year to students at the University of New...
Read MoreCovid returns to Tahiti
The Covid-19 epidemic is back on the rise in French Polynesia. Sixty-six new cases were confirmed last week, according to Tahiti Infos. According to the health watch bulletin, the cases are mainly concentrated in Tahiti (46),...
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Health insurance: second demonstration in Noumea against the reform
The mobilisation is decreasing, but the organisers are ready to harden the movement There were...
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Omicron variant arrives in New Caledonia
Suspected cases had been detected in recent weeks. The government confirmed on Thursday that it...
Read MoreThe virus is killing far fewer people
Deaths from covid are becoming increasingly rare. The total number of deaths since 9 September is 280. 22 new positive cases have been confirmed. These new cases bring the total number of confirmed positive cases to 12,343 since...
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Mandatory health pass in Polynesia
The Polynesian “health pass” is compulsory from 22 November for inter-island travel...
Read MoreJournalist attacked by anti-vaccine activists
During a demonstration in front of the CPS (Pacific community) On Saturday 23rd, a journalist from the public channel NC Première was violently beaten by a group of demonstrators who had come to protest against compulsory...
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Increase in tobacco prices
The Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna voted last September to increase the price of...
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Anti-vaccine demonstration during the lockdown…
On Saturday 25 September around 2000 people demonstrated in Noumea against the obligation to be...
Read MoreCovid the predicted catastrophe is coming to Caledonia
Caledonia is heading towards a Tahitian scenario. Since 6 September, 33 people have died from Covid in New Caledonia. The resuscitation department of the Dumbéa public hospital had 54 patients in intensive care on 21 September....
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