A new national study has found that Indigenous iTaukei people, particularly men and young children, faced a significantly higher risk of drowning in Fiji between 2016 and 2022, while also highlighting major weaknesses in the country’s death-recording system. The retrospective population-based study recorded 364 unintentional drowning deaths over the seven-year period, giving Fiji a drowning […]
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