A NEW pharmaceutical drug plant will begin operation in Nadi within the next few months and is expected to end the days of chronic shortage of medicinal drugs in Fiji.
Nadi-based Pacific Specialist Healthcare (PSH) Hospitals founder and chief executive officer Parvish Kumar revealed this last Friday at the signing of a long-term tenancy agreement with Sun
Insurance Co Ltd of the latter’s new SUN Centre 2, currently under construction next to SUN Centre 1 in Legalega, Nadi.
The entire SUN Centre 1 building is under long term lease to PSH Hospital.
“This is our way of showing that PSH Hospitals is not just thinking one or two years ahead, but we are thinking several decades ahead and with this signing, we’ll be doing more massive investment and part of the project now involves us setting up our own pharmaceutical plant in Nadi at this site,” Mr Kumar said.
“Our drug plant will be on Level One and Level Two (of the building), while level three to five will be our advanced Pacific Cardiac, where apart from the current open-heart surgery that we are doing, we are also planning now to start organ transplant in this building.”
Mr Kumar said the expansion was also about gearing up for medical tourism, which was aligned to Government’s National Development Plan where one of the areas was on promoting medical tourism.
“So we are now aligning ourselves with that and we are expanding our bed capacity, we are expanding our technological base and now we are also going to be manufacturing medicine in Fiji.
“So probably in the next seven to eight months’ time, once the plant is ready, Fiji should not anymore face any drug shortage issues.
“And with this drug plant now at 1, Legalega Rd, Nadi will actually become a medical hub of Fiji and the Pacific,” Mr Kumar said.
