New Laws commenced for Motootua Hospital.

04 January 2022: New changes has been made to the regulation of outpatient and emergency services at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in Motootua.

The changes were made by the Ministry of Health,on Thursday 30th December 2021.

Members of the public are advised that there will be a merger of the outpatients and emergency services at the hospital.

The merger commenced from the Christmas weekend and continue until Monday 10th January 2022.

All general outpatients will be seen within the ground floor of the Motootua TTM Hospital Emergency Building, where the current Paediatric Clinic is located.

MOH released a Notice starting that "The MNinistry of Health strongly encourages the general public to seek medical attention for minor ailments and medical conditions between the hours of 8am to 8pm-including changing of dressings, renewal of prescriptions."

The Health ministry said that emergency cases only are to be seen after this time from 8pm to 8am."

The general public is also reminded that as part of our ongoing national campaign against COVID-19, we will be enforcing strict entry only to those outpatient cases who have completed both doses of their vaccination(Pfizer or AstraZeneca)."