Colonial War Memorial Hospital
The Colonial War Memorial Hospital is a hospital located in Suva, Fiji. It was built and completed at the end of 1923. It was built with the assistance of £319,500.[1] It replaced the Colonial Hospital which was first built in Levuka (the former capital of Fiji) and relocated to Walu Bay in Suva in 1894.
| Colonial War Memorial Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Brown street, Suva, Pacific, Fiji |
| Coordinates | 18°8′5″S 178°26′1″E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Fiji Government |
| Type | Public hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 500 |
| Helipad | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 2 December 1923 |
| Links | |
| Website | site |
| Lists | Hospitals in Fiji |
Background
The hospital was the brainchild of Legislative Council member Henry Marks, who personally donated £5,000 towards its founding, and gave another £5,000 through his company.[2] When it initially opened in 1923, it had 108 beds and 27 staff members of which 17 were European doctors and nurses and 10 were local nurses but today, it has a total of 1117 staff of which 133 are doctors, 534 are nurses, 173 Paramedical and Management staff and a support team of 277.[3]
The Hospital also acts as a teaching hospital with students from Fiji School of Medicine and Fiji School of Nursing having campuses based at the hospital since 1928.[4]
References
- "Fiji's Central Medical School & CWM Hospital, 1884-1941". Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- "Notable Men of the Pacific", Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1931, p6
- "CWM HOSPITAL CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF CARING". Fiji Government. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- "History of FSM/FNU". Fiji National University. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.