This will require a modification of their present contract.
This change will
take advantage of their experience and skills in managing other health care
facilities in the Pacific area.
This change should be coordinated with the
implementation of the 96-205 program.
Financial Controller:
This would be someone responsible on site for the
financial portion of the program.
They would be employed by the FIPI and
would be one of the two required signatures for fund disbursement.
Health
Commission:
This
would
be
the
coordinating
establish priorities, set policy, and develop budgets.
the Minister of Health or his
designee,
body that would
Its members would be
the Minister of Finance or his
designee, the general Secretary or his designee, the Financial Controller,
and one other from the FIPI.
They would also be responsible for hiring and
firing of the five division heads.
The five division heads will be available
for
present
technical
expertise
and
to
division
needs.
One
of
the
Marshallese will
be designated as the other signature required for the
release of funds.
The Financial Controller would function as the treasurer
for this Commission.
Bank:
Both the U.S. and the Marshall Island Government would be required
to deposit appropriated funds on a timely basis to a mutually agreed to bank.
Funds would be disbursed
to
the operating divisions by having both the ©
financial controller and designated Marshallese approve the fund transfer.
One acting alone could not transfer any funds - U.S. or Marshall Islands.
This activity is represented by the Proposed Funds Flow chart that follows.
For discussion of the specific activities of each division, please refer
to the appropriate portion of the report.
B.
Adventist Health Services/Guam-Micronesia Mission Management Contract
The Marshall
Islands Government and the Guam-Micronesia Mission of
Seventh-day Adventists signed a management contract in February 1980.
Under
this contract, the Guam-Micronesia Mission is to provide "management and
control
of those
activities
and services presently administered by the
Ministry of Health Services of the Marshall Islands."
The effective date of
the contract is the first Sunday after all of the following have been
accomplished: