Funding Fiji Government Emergency department Yes Website site Phone +679 870 4905 Founded December 2, 1923 | Hospital type Public hospital Helipad Yes Address Brown St, Suva, Fiji Number of beds 500 | |
Location Brown street, Suva, Pacific, Fiji Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hours Similar ANZ National Stadium, Navua River, Albert Park, Colo‑i‑Suva Forest Reserve, Fiji Museum | ||
The Colonial War Memorial Hospital is a hospital located in Suva, Fiji. It was built and completed at the end of 1923. It was built with the assistance of £319,500. It replaced the Colonial Hospital which was first built in Levuka (the former capital of Fiji) and relocated to Walu Bay in Suva in 1894.
Background
It is Fiji's largest and oldest hospital. When it initially opened in 1923, it had 108 beds and 27 staff members of which 17 were European doctors and nurses and 10 were native nurses but today, it has a total of 1117 staff of which 133 are doctors, 534 are nurses, 173 Paramedical and Management staff and a support team of 277.
The Hospital also acts as a teaching hospital with students from Fiji School of Medicine and Fiji School of Nursing having campuses based at the hospital since 1928.