Recognizing the need for regional cooperation to improve public health services, the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures is forming a regional health council that would formulate strategies and plans of action to regionalize health resources.<\/p>\n
[The council] should also identify potential ways to maximize the efforts of medical referral offices of each entity to meet the health needs of our islands,\u00ee states an APIL resolution.<\/p>\n
The council would be composed of representatives of the islands\u00ed healthcare oversight bodies.<\/p>\n
This developed amid plans to put up a regional medical facility on Guam, which was reached by the chief executives of the CNMI, Guam, Palau and Yap during a recent summit on Guam.<\/p>\n
The APIL resolution recognized a common concern on the shortage of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals in the Pacific region.
\nThe APIL noted a common high incidence of non-communicable diseases on the islands, which include cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n
Due to the ongoing struggle to provide adequate healthcare in the area of specialties, our people continue to seek treatment off-island away from home,\u00ee states the resolution. \u00ecWe must put effort into decreasing duplication so we may be more cost-effective in our efforts.<\/p>\n
The resolution called for collaboration among the islands\u00ed learning institutions on matters of research, training and development in the provision of healthcare.<\/p>\n
CNMI House vice speaker Timothy Villagomez leads the APIL, which is composed of lawmakers from 12 governments, as association president. The group convened on Guam early this week.<\/p>\n
The association\u00eds lawmakers come from12 Pacific governments such as the CNMI, Guam, American Samoa, Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap, Marshall Islands, Palau, Hawaii, Nauru, and Kiribati. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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