Hand Surgery Week 2
Fri, May 05
|Waiyevo Hospital
Hand surgeons will offer reconstructive surgery to the hand which would include resetting of finger fractures and hand fractures. Fused or extra fingers/toes can be repaired or removed. Chronic infections can be addressed and tendon contractures can be repaired.


Time & Location
May 05, 2023, 7:00 PM – May 14, 2023, 7:00 PM
Waiyevo Hospital, Taveuni Island, Fiji
About the event
Taveuni Hospital, Hand Surgery Week2
Hand surgeons will offer reconstructive surgery to the hand which would include resetting of finger fractures and hand fractures. Fused fingers/toes can be repaired. Extra fingers/toes can be removed. Chronic infections can be addressed and tendon contractures can be repaired. Each day the team will work at the hospital in the operating theater performing surgeries on pre-screened patients. Five days of surgery and Sundays are at leisure to explore the island.
The hospital is a fully functioning, electrified (daylight hours only) 40 bed inpatient hospital with two resident physicians who live on site. There are children's, men's, women's and obstetrics wards on site with resident nurses. A very nice operating theater is on site together with a labor and delivery room. There is also a pharmacist who often has a full stock of medications. Loloma Foundation maintains a full supply of medications and surgical supplies on…