The Ministry of Health has yet to decide the fate of the Diabetes Clinic at Matagialalua that was temporarily shut down last year in September to make way for an extension to services.
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That is despite an email already sent to the Director General, Leausa Dr. Take Naseri and follow ups for confirmation whether the clinic would be open again.
When the closure was confirmed, Tagaloa Dr. Robert Thomsen, the Assistant C.E.O Health Services Performance and Quality Assurance for Medical and Allied Health said the clinic was expected to open again in October.
He said the clinic would shut its doors while authorities considered its future.
The expansion, he said, would include more opening days and longer opening hours, as opposed to the then current opening days of Tuesday to Friday.
Five months later, members of the public who accessed the services at the clinic are still in the dark about its fate.
Tagaloa was also approached last month and he confirmed that he had received the questions.
“I am working on the questions that were forwarded to me by the Director General,” he said. “When I am done with them I will refer them back to him (Director General) before I can send them to you.”
It is now the beginning of February and there is still no response in regards to the questions.
But the shutdown has affected hundreds of diabetic, heart and hypertension patients who were served at the clinic.
The clinic was a non-profit organisation that was backed by government funding for years.
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