Secondary and selected certiary care will be made available within
the hospitals on Majuro and/or Ebeye.
This will require
Improvement
in the physical plants, equipment, and manpower, but should decrease
the expensive referrals to Hawaii.
The current contract between the Guam-Micronesia Mission
bf Seventh-
day Adventists and the Marshall Island Government will befcontinued,
but limited to secondary and tertiary care.
The Seventh-day Adventist
Church has demonstrated competence in hospital management] and has
won the confidence of the Marshallese Government.
[t woufd have
difficulty adequately developing and staffing the other c@mponents
of the health care system.
Though specific timetables are not developed, the assumption in this
proposal is that the MarshallIslandGovernment, should pushy towardself-
sufficiencyinmanpower,
This requires a strong emphasiq
ro
which is detailed.
on training