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206: 31: 244:, who personally donated £5,000 towards its founding, and gave another £5,000 through his company. 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. 345: 266:
hospitalization. On 6 June 2021, after reporting a record number of cases, the Ministry of Health sealed off the hospital for treatment of COVID-19 patients only.
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It was built and completed at the end of 1923. It was built with the assistance of £319,500. It replaced the Colonial Hospital which was first built in
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The Hospital also acts as a teaching hospital with students from
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The hospital was the brainchild of Legislative Council member
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Coordinates
18°8′5″S 178°26′1″E / 18.13472°S 178.43361°E / -18.13472; 178.43361
Care system
Funding
Public hospital
Type
District General
Emergency department
Helipad
site
Hospitals in Fiji

Suva
Fiji
Levuka
Henry Marks
Fiji School of Medicine
Fiji School of Nursing
COVID-19 pandemic
intensive care
"Fiji's Central Medical School & CWM Hospital, 1884-1941"
Notable Men of the Pacific
Pacific Islands Monthly
"CWM HOSPITAL CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF CARING"
"History of FSM/FNU"
Fiji National University
the original
"Covid-19: Fiji records 46 cases, highest recorded in a day"
RNZ

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