Young Samoan seasonal workers diagnosed with serious illnesses in New Zealand face being sent home when their employment contracts and medical insurance expire, a senior nurse has told Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt.Hawke’s Bay Hospital Senior Clinical Nurse Olive Amani Tanielu ...
Samoa
Health, Samoans abroad
By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo
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21 July 2026, 8:00PM
The concerns raised by Hawke's Bay nurse Olive Amani Tanielu deserve action.Young Samoan seasonal workers are arriving in New…
Samoan seasonal workers are among those expected to receive clearer information about employment costs and stronger protection…
Samoan seasonal workers employed under Australia and New Zealand’s seasonal worker schemes have raised concerns over unexplained…
Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt visited Samoan seasonal workers in Hastings in what the Government described as…
Patients seeking treatment at Poutasi and Sa'anapu district hospitals have been affected by medicine shortages over the past two…
A visiting specialist team treated children in Samoa who may have waited up to three years for surgery and at one point did not…
