According to Deputy Prime Minister, Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio the Government is continuing its services in sending local patients for overseas treatment.
“At the moment, New Zealand is the only country that patients are being sent to for overseas medical treatment that can’t be done in Samoa,” he said last week.
The Deputy Prime Minister added that the decision to add more funding to the already existing budget allocated for medical treatments was done last week.
