PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (July 17, 2000 - PIDP/CPIS)---American Samoa students
attending the Fiji
School of Medicine are scheduled to return to Fiji on June 26th, said LBJ Hospital's
Chief Executive Officer
Taufetee John Faumuina on state-run television.
Despite the political unrest in Fiji, Tauefetee said he received official word
from Fiji Medical School authorities
that the school will resume at the end of June, so American Samoa's 17 medical
students will depart the territory
on June 26.
The territory's medical and dental students attending the school in Fiji were
evacuated by the territorial
government with the help of Polynesian Airlines in late May when the political
crisis in Fiji was unstable.
The students took an early break and were to return on June 13th to take their
final exams, but that timetable
was later postponed.
Taufete‘e said the school’s administrator assured him that the students
will be safe, despite the political coup
having developed into a drawn out stalemate between the military and the rebels
that is now in it's fourth week.
He said American Samoa’s students, who mainly live off campus, have been
advised to relocate to on campus as
well as to leave all their dependents behind.
"It is for safety reasons," Taufete‘e said.
The students are all on scholarship from the territorial government's Health Department.
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