[3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Fiji achieves 92.1% of what is expected based on its current income.
[3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 77.4% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.
This had some effect, particularly in the improvement of water and sewage systems but the country is short of qualified doctors and nurses.
[7] For highly specialised healthcare, Fiji continues to rely on overseas health systems and expertise.
Such arrangements have caused controversy in the past including one episode in which the leading Fijian academic Ganesh Chand, then Vice Chancellor of Fiji National University, allegedly abused his authority by approving the payments for overseas medical treatment for the then Minister of Education and the Chairman of the Fiji National University Council, Filipe Bole.